Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
The Great House and outlying ruins from an ancient Sonoran desert Hohokam people.
1300: Ancient Hohokam Sonoran desert people developed wide-scale irrigation farming
1450: The inhabitants abandoned the site
1694: Written journal entries from Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino
1775: Discovered on exhibition of Lt Col Juan Batista de Anza
1846: Rediscovered by military detachment of Brig Gen Stephen Watts Kearny
1860-1880:Nearby railroad and stagecoach route brought many visitors to the site
1883-1884: visited and reported by anthropologist and historian Adolph Bandelier
1887-1888: visited by Hemenway Southwestern Archeological Expedition
1889: MA Senator George F Hoar presented petition to the US Senate to preserve the site
1892: This monument was the nation's first archeological prehistoric and cultural reserve
1901: First on-site custodian Frank Pinkley managed by the General Land Office
1903: Shelter roof of corrugated iron and redwood timbers constructed over the site
1906: excavations and repairs conducted by the Bureau of Ethnology
1918: August 3rd, the site was declared a National Monument by President Woodrow Wilson
and transferred custodianship to the National Park Service
1926-1930: site of Arizona Pageant to promote the site
1930s: construction of visitor center, parking lot, entrance road, and new steel shelter roof
1937-1940: CCC Civilian Conservation Corps constructed several adobe buildings for park operations
These structures are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Photo by Alan Boertjens
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Casa Grande, AZ |
Photo by Alan Boertjens
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Casa Grande, AZ |
Photo by Alan Boertjens
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Casa Grande, AZ |
Photo by Alan Boertjens
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Casa Grande, AZ |
Photo by Alan Boertjens
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Casa Grande, AZ |
Photo by Alan Boertjens
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Casa Grande, AZ |
Photo by Alan Boertjens
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Casa Grande, AZ |
Photo by Alan Boertjens
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Casa Grande, AZ |
Photo by Alan Boertjens
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Casa Grande, AZ |
Photo by Alan Boertjens
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Casa Grande, AZ |
Photo by Alan Boertjens
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Casa Grande, AZ |
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