All posts in AZ History & Heritage

  • Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
    Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
    October 6, 2008, Comments Off

    Casa Grande means “great house” and Casa Grande Ruins National Monument preserves an ancient Hohokam farming community. It was the first cultural and prehistoric site to be protected by the ...

  • Pueble Indian Ruins of Montezuma Castle
    Visit the Pueblo Indian Ruins of the Southwest
    January 3, 2008, Comments Off

    The Hohokam Indians first settled a long stretch of the Verde River in central Arizona and were later followed by the Sinagua Indians. The Sinagua are credited with the introduction ...

  • agua fria national monument
    Agua Fria National Monument
    November 15, 2007, Comments Off

    It is a unique feeling to think that the last person to see a metate (grinding slab) and mano (hand-held rock grinder) still sitting in the metate, was possibly the ...

  • Cameron Trading Post
    Cameron Trading Post
    October 10, 2007, 3 Comments

    The Cameron Trading Post has been providing visitors, travelers and explorers to the desert southwest with needed supplies for nearly a century. In the early days, that meant trading almost ...

  • Sears Kay Ruins
    Sears Kay Ruins, Echoes of an Ancient Civilization
    June 23, 2007, Comments Off

    On a windswept ridge, high above a dry streambed, a small band of Hohokam Indians built a community, now known as the Sears-Kay Ruin. Around 1050 AD, these ancient people ...

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