President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1942 WWII Executive Order 9066 forced the removal of nearly 125,000 Japanese American citizens from the west coast, incarcerating them in ten remote internment camps in […]
The building of the railroad across Arizona in 1879-1880 was a wonder of technology and human will. It created a series of small communities linked by their role in supporting […]
Florence began as a small rural desert town. In 1875 a major silver strike and designation as Pinal County seat changed the character of the town. Â Despite the past […]
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