Early Phoenix

Like the mythical bird it is named after, Phoenix rose from the desert heat to become a prosperous and vital city. Settled on the lands of the ancient Hohokam Indians, Phoenix began as an agricultural community in the 1860s. It was appointed county seat
of Maricopa County in 1871 and territorial capital in 1889. By 1900, town boosters were calling Phoenix an Oasis in the Desert and the Denver of the Southwest. By 1920, Phoenix was on its way to being a metropolitan city with a population of 29,053 and sporting an eight-story skyscraper. Many farsighted individuals documented this development through photographs, allowing today s residents to see the community s amazing growth from small town to big city."

Author: Kathleen Garcia
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: 05/26/2008
Pages: 127
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.53w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9780738548395

About the Author
Garcia, Kathleen: - With a master of arts in Southwest and Arizona history, author Kathleen Garcia has worked at the Phoenix Public Library for 20 years, the last 13 in the Arizona History Room. During her time there, Garcia has worked on a digitization project of Phoenix photographs from the public library s James H. McClintock Collection and the Phoenix Museum of History s image collection. It is from this digitization project that the majority of photographs for this book have been drawn.