Arizona history Feb. 28-March 6
Feb. 24, 2021
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Sunday, Feb. 28
On this date in 1856, Solomon Warner arrived in Tucson from Yuma with a train of 13 mules loaded with merchandise for Tucson’s first general store.
On this date in 1859, the first Indian reservation in Arizona was established on the Gila River for the Pima and Maricopa Indians.
On this date in 1925, Phoenix celebrated the opening of the Phoenix-Yuma-Imperial Valley Highway.
On this date in 2009, Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation’s most familiar voices, dies at age 90 at a Phoenix hospital.
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On this date in 1888, work was begun on a bridge across the Colorado River at Needles.
On this date in 1914, it rained in Phoenix for 72 consecutive hours, causing the reservoir behind Roosevelt Dam to gain 40,000 acre-feet in one day.
On this date in 1925, 1,200 boxes of dynamite exploded at the United Verde Copper mine causing $20,000 damage to walls and window glass in Jerome.
On this date in 1929, the town of Miami discovered it would need heavier manhole covers when the Arizona Road Department’s electric magnet was put to work picking up nails and metal scraps from the city’s streets. The machine picked up all the manhole covers along its route.