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In the museum of Tubac Presidio State Historic Park I got to know that Tubac along with what is now southern Arizona and southern New Mexico (map here) was bought from Mexico by USA in 1853. Under the agreement called Gadsden Purchase, the U.S. paid Mexico $10 million (equivalent to about $230 million now) for 29,640 square miles (76,770 square km). It's about $12.1 per acre. I wonder how much is the land in Arizona now. The purchased land was incoporated into the New Mexico Territory.
With the arrival of the Americans came Charles D. Poston, "the Father of Arizona." He established the Sonora Exploring and Mining Company in Tubac. Silver mines which operated in the area gave great income but they didn't survive till now. Instead the mines I could easily find a lot of silver jewelry in Tubac shops.
The Father of Arizona printed his own money to pay his employees, performed marriages, granted divorces, officiated baptisms, and even established Arizona's first newspaper in 1859 that I could read on historical marker (see picture 2). The following year, Tubac became the largest town in the state.
Leave a Comment Address: P.O. Box 1296, Tubac, Arizona 85646Phone: +1 (520) 398-2252Directions: Tubac Presidio State Historic Park is located in southeastern corner of Tubac, follow the direction signs. Map hereWebsite: http://www.discoverseaz.com/History/Poston.html
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| | | | Adobe buildings | Tip Rating: | | | | |
Adobe is a natural building material composed of sand, sandy clay and straw or other organic materials, which is shaped into bricks using wooden frames and dried in the sun. The same mixture to make bricks, less the straw, is used for mortar and often for plaster on interior and exterior walls.
Some galleries and shops of Tubac are placed in adobe buildings, which I saw for the first time in the USA just in Tubac. I liked them a lot. Sometimes substantial amounts of stone are used in the walls of basically adobe buildings, as I could notice in Tubac. Well, nothing compare to adobe buildings I could see soon later in Santa Fe, Taos and peublos of New Mexico.
I also saw buildings made of sun-dried earth in Spain and northern Africa (Morocco and Tunisia) but they looked different. Adobe had been in use by natives to the Americas in the Southwestern United States, Mesoamerica, and the Andean region of South America for several thousand years. This method of brickmaking was imported to Spain in the 16th century by Spaniards who had traveled to Mexico and Peru. Adobe buildings are extremely durable and account for the oldest extant buildings on the planet. They also offer significant advantages in hot, dry climates; they remain cooler as adobe stores and releases heat very slowly. Bricks which are hardened by burning in a kiln are worse thermal isolator.
Leave a Comment Address: P.O. Box 4632, Tubac, AZ 85646Phone: +1 (520) 398 0007Directions: Take free map from Tubac - Santa Cruz Visitor Center located at the entrance to Tubac. La Pinata shop is in southern part of the village, at 18 Tubac Road.Website: http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/adobe.htm
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| | | | Prehistoric Tubac and Indian art | Tip Rating: | | | | |
It is believed that the Tubac area has been inhabited over 11,000 years. First to come were the Elephant Hunters, who hunted in the dense Arizona forests and along numerous lakes and streams for the huge elephant-like mammoth. The Hohokam lived in the area between 300-1500 A.D., followed by the Pima and native O'odham, who greeted the Spanish.
I found enjoyable metal artistic imaginations of prehistoric people marching through Tubac (see picture 2) and carrying stones (picture 3). You may find some information on these prehistoric times in the museum of Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. Apart from that look at Indian art offered in numerous shops and galleries of Tubac (see pictures 4-5). Some of them are copies of archeological findings of Hohokam and Pima people: animals and geometrical drawings found on rocks, jewelry and pottery found in shallow Indian graves.
HOHOKAM - Those Who Are Gone
This word is used by archeologists to identify a group of people that lived in the Sonoran Desert, currently southern Arizona and Mexican states of Sonora, and Chihuahua. Hohokam means "those who are gone" or "all used up." The Hohokam may be the ancestors of the modern Pima peoples in Southern Arizona, and local oral tradition.
PIMA - River People
The Akimel O'odham or Pima means "river people". They are closely related to the Tohono O'odham meaning "desert people". Both groups used O'odham language which is the second most widely-spoken Native American language in the US, with over 12,000 speakers in the USA and many more in Mexico. The name "Pima" apparently comes from a phrase that means "I don't know", used repeatedly in their initial meeting with Europeans.
Leave a Comment Address: P.O. Box 1296, Tubac, Arizona 85646Phone: +1 (520) 398-2252Directions: Museum is in Tubac Presidio State Historic Park (southeastern part of Tubac), follow the direction signs, map hereWebsite: http://www.answers.com/topic/pima#after_ad1
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| | | | Mexican power and art | Tip Rating: | | | | |
When the Emperor Napoleon of France put his brother, Joseph, on the Spanish throne in 1808, ties between Spain and her American colonies weakened and the movement for Mexican independence grew stronger. The Mexican War of Independence began in 1810 and continued until 1821, when rebel troops entered Mexico City and the Treaty of Cordoba was signed, whereby Spain recognized Mexico's independence.
Thus Tubac became part of an independent Mexico in 1821. I could find few information on that period in the museum of Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. However there are quite many typical Mexican gifts on display and sale in Tubac including:
- figures of sleeping Mexicans wearing Mexican hats called sombreros,
- mysterious stone circles of a few men which I called "circles of brotherhood" (see picture 2 and 5),
- Mexican sun (picture 3),
- jewelry in pre-Columbian Mexico style (picture 4). I had already seem them in Tijuana, Mexico a few days before.
Leave a Comment Address: P.O. Box 1296, Tubac, Arizona 85646Phone: +1 (520) 398-2252Directions: Tubac Presidio State Historic Park is located in southeastern corner of Tubac, follow the direction signs. Map hereWebsite: http://www.pr.state.az.us/Parks/parkhtml/tubac.html
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| | | | El Presidio (Spanish fortress, 1752) | Tip Rating: | | | | |
A Presidio ("el presidio" in Spanish) is a type of fortress built by the Spanish in North Africa during the 16th century to protect against pirates. But presidios were located in the southern United States as well.
Prompted by many grievances, Pima chief Luis of Saric led a bloody rebellion destroying the Spanish settlement of Tubac in 1751. The Presidio San Ignacio de Tubac was founded in June of 1752 in Tubac, Arizona. The fifty cavalrymen garrisoned at this remote military post were to prevent further rebellion, protect colonists and the mission, and further explore the Southwest.
Currently there is Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, the first state park in Arizona, which contains the Visitors Center, ruins of former presidio, a museum with underground archeology exhibit displaying the excavated foundations of the Tubac Presidio, and a picnic area.
Leave a Comment Address: P.O. Box 1296, Tubac, Arizona 85646Phone: +1 (520) 398-2252Directions: Tubac Presidio State Historic Park is located in southeastern corner of Tubac, follow the direction signs. Map hereWebsite: http://www.pr.state.az.us/Parks/parkhtml/tubac.html
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on February 16, 2007
