William Hickling Prescott was widely known for his book, History of the Conquest of Mexico, and other works. The residents honored the historian at a public meeting on May 30, , naming the town for him. Unfortunately, he never knew; he died in , five years before being honored by the town.
Long names used to frustrate the U. Postal Service, so it rejected many applications for post offices, citing name length as the reason. Ellsworth, in a gracious move, suggested they name the settlement after his sister-in-law Sedona.
In , The request was approved by the Postal Service. Cooley and Marion Clark — so they decided to gamble for control with a game of poker.
Winner got to stay; loser had to leave. It was nearly dawn before the last hand was dealt, and Cooley needed only one more point. Bones greeted travelers along the path through this valley following a massacre in the s. The abundance of skulls was described by some as the result of a battle between Indian tribes, while another story attributed the skulls to white men who were murdered by hostile Indians.
Another skirmish between explorers and natives in the s led to the deaths of dozens of Indians, who were left where they fell without being buried. Or Snow Flake, as it was originally spelled. Both men were Mormon settlers, so, naturally, Flake let them stay and the two groups became happy neighbors. About of the original buildings from the turn of the 19th century have been restored and some are part of the Snowflake Historic Homes Walking Tour.
Some settlers got creative with the names they gave their new towns. And some did not. Take, for example, this town on the Mogollon Rim. The weather is perfect for growing When the first residents came across a nearby creek, they found an abundance of the tasty red fruit growing along the banks.
So, they decided to keep it simple and named the town without much more thought. They warned him of the hostile Apaches he was sure to encounter while exploring the San Pedro Valley. Alone, Schieffelin set out in search of mining prospects among the Indians in late What you will find is an abundance of rocks — really flat, circular rocks.
Phelps, a co-owner of the town in the late s, said that John Cline, a cowboy, told her about being stranded there during a cattle drive.
Having just purchased some land, Cline and his cowboy pals celebrated as cowboys often did, but they drank too much and forgot to stop for supplies before continuing on to Phoenix. A flash flood made the trails impassable, and the men ran out of food while waiting for the water to recede. They did, however, have some flour, which they used to make tortillas while they camped on the rocks for several days.
In the mids, Hamblin and his cohorts came upon the tribe and developed a friendly relationship. Less than 20 years later, they were forced to leave after the government purchased their holdings for Indian use. When Spanish missionaries arrived in the area during the late 17th century, they clashed with Indians while trying to convert them.
By the time the Civil War occurred, the area had been incorporated as the Arizona Territory. From until , Tucson was the state capital. This place near Truxton Canyon has nothing to do with Cupid. Most people there had probably never even heard of St. Because the school was on agency land, the Indian agent also became the postmaster.
When the school was closed less than a decade later, the post office and the township were renamed to honor Robert G. Valentine, then-Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Both stories about how this town got its name sound reasonable, although one might be more interesting than the other. According to the Arizona Office of Tourism, it comes from a practical source — the Y-shaped junction of nearby state routes 85 and The state was very The Dutch first settled along the Hudson River in ; two years later they established the colony of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island.
In , the English took control of the area and renamed it New York. One of the original 13 colonies, New York played a crucial political Wyoming became the 44th state to join the union in Wyoming was the first U. Today, although it is the 10th largest state by area, Wyoming has Except for Hawaii, Indiana Live TV. This Day In History.
There were large numbers of Basque living in all those areas, and an abundance of oak trees giving credence to the theory that the word Arizona was Basque, rather than Tohono Oodham. Since he wrote the article, several people have contacted him with new reasons to support his thesis. The most overwhelming being the number of other locations with this name:.
Two towns in Argentina, 6 in Brazil, 3 in Columbia, 2 in Honduras. Spanish and Basque are in all those areas, but Tohono Oodham did not travel that much. Charles Polzer editor of the Journal of Arizona History refused to publish it. I have been to the site of the ranch house where the many letters were first addressed with that name, and can attest that it is indeed a very wet area, drainage from the mountains, 18 miles southwest of Nogales, in Old Mexico. Never has there been this much disagreement about the name of a state, I am sure.
Another irony is that the location never was, and is not now, included in the area we now call Arizona!
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