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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KZR_who-lived-here_Tucson-AZ.html
Like many Tucsonans in the 1920s, Bernice Walkley and Rutger Porter were transplanted easterners - she from Connecticut and he from New York. Rutger met Bernice while doing landscape work for her father in Tucson.
In 1929 Rutger bought the small …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KZK_does-this-garden-seem-lush-and-cool_Tucson-AZ.html
The Historical Gardens show a gardening style that was popular in Tucson from the 1880s through the 1940s. The landscape choices of those days aimed for a green retreat from the desert and helped keep homes cooler in the decades before air-conditi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KZJ_cattle-tank_Tucson-AZ.html
You can still see part of the cattle tank that was installed in 1938. It sat on a concrete base and was used every summer as a swimming pool before the water was released to irrigate the surrounding gardens.
The Porters had their own well, as di…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ9G_veterans-memorial_Tucson-AZ.html
Dedicated to the enduring memory of the men and women who faithfully served in the military forces of the United States of America and in grateful acknowledgment of their contribution to this nation, which in time of peril, found in them its prote…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIWY_rugged-pioneer-soldiers_Tucson-AZ.html
Lest we forget those rugged pioneersoldiers who tamed the west,this memorial is erectedto perpetually remind us of their service.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHEJ_fort-lowell_Tucson-AZ.html
Largest of the early Arizona military installationsthis was the supply base for military posts in southern Arizona during the long warfare against the Apaches. Built in 1873, it was Gen. Nelson A. Miles' headquarter in the final campaign against G…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHEI_cottonwood-lane_Tucson-AZ.html
Planted shortly after Fort Lowell was established in 1873. The trees were irrigated by acequias or open ditches with water diverted from Pantano Wash. The beautiful shade trees made Fort Lowell an oasis in an otherwise barren area. After the fort …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHEG_chapel-of-san-pedro-at-fort-lowell_Tucson-AZ.html
A tiny chapel, built here in 1915, served the Barriada del Rillito, a community now called El Fuerte. The fifteen immigrant Mexican families of this village gathered outside under mesquite trees to hear Mass. In 1917, Senora Josefa de Mule donated…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHEC_fort-lowell_Tucson-AZ.html
The military post, established in 1862near downtown Tucson, was moved tothis location in 1873. One of manyactive forts on the Arizona frontier,Lowell served also as a major supplydepot, influencing the economy andsocial life of the community. At i…