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APRIL 15, 2011 presents Sponsors: 12 ARIZONA’S CENTENNIAL PHOENIX BUSINESS JOURNAL phoenix.bizjournals.com April 15, 2011 April 15, 2011 PHOENIX BUSINESS JOURNAL phoenix.bizjournals.com ARIZONA’S CENTENNIAL 13 1911 The Wrigley Mansion was built in 1932. The Hotel Westward Arizona has a history that stretches prior to its statehood in 1912. In the • Theodore Roosevelt Dam is completed. FILE PHOTO Ho became the 1800s and early 1900s, the business community gained a foothold and • StandardAero, one of the largest private city’s fi rst various associations and chambers sprang up. Here is a look at Arizona’s companies in Arizona, is founded as an skyscraper in 1928. Arizona‘s evolution signifi cant events leading up to and during the fi rst 25 years of statehood. airplane repair operation. • Good Samaritan Hospital opens in Phoenix. PROVIDED BY CITY OF PHOENIX Pre-statehood In 1911, President Theodore Roosevelt 1912 1858 spoke at the Old Main building on the • Arizona is granted statehood on Feb. 14. Wells Fargo, the state’s largest banking and fi nancial services campus of Arizona State University, then • The Casa Grande Dispatch is founded. provider, appears in the Arizona territory. called Tempe Normal School. • George W.P. Hunt becomes Arizona’s PROVIDED BY ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY fi rst governor. 1877 • The University of Arizona has 254 1922 The city of Tucson incorporates in Pima County. students enrolled, Tempe Normal School has 324 and Shamrock Dairy is founded in Tucson by Irish immigrants Northern Arizona Normal School (now Northern Arizona W.T. McClelland and his wife, Winifred. Today, Shamrock is 1878 University) has 136. one of the largest family-owned dairies in the Southwest. Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph, the forerunner • The Chandler Chamber of Commerce opens. to Qwest Communications International opens. • The Mesa Chamber of Commerce opens. 1923 • Babbitt Ford is founded in Flagstaff. Southside District Hospital (now Banner Desert Medical 1879 Center) is established in Mesa. Arizona Daily Star newspaper is founded in Tucson. 1914 • The Arizona Bar Association begins representing 1924 1880 attorneys around the state. • Horizon Moving Systems is founded by the Dusenberry family. 1930 • Yuma incorporates. • St. Mary’s Hospital is founded. • Benson incorporates. • Stewart Mountain Dam is completed, creating • Maricopa Integrated Health System begins operations. Saguaro Lake. 1915 1925 • The Wigwam Resort launches its fi rst nine holes of golf. 1881 • The USS Arizona, a U.S. Navy battleship honoring the • Mormon Flat Dam is fi nished, creating Canyon Lake along • Phoenix Bakery (now Holsum Bakery Inc.) is established state, is launched. the Salt River. • Insurance brokerage the Mahoney Group opens. 1932 in Phoenix. Today, Holsum is among Arizona’s top fi ve • Tempe Normal School becomes Tempe • The Wrigley Mansion is built by • Willcox and Casa Grande incorporate. nonelectronics manufacturers, employing almost 500. State Teachers College. chewing-gum magnate William • The city of Phoenix incorporates. • Northern Arizona Normal School Wrigley Jr. • The city of Tombstone incorporates. (Later that year, the 1891 1905 1917 becomes Northern Arizona State • The Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce is formed. • Work begins on the Roosevelt Dam, which created • The Zimmerman telegram is sent by Germany to Mexico, famous gunfi ght at the O.K. Corral takes place.) Teachers College. 1933 • The Evening Weekly Free Press (later renamed the Mesa the major water storage area for much of the Valley’s offering to give Arizona back to Mexico as a territory for its Milking machines are used for the fi rst Tribune, then the East Valley Tribune) is founded. farmland. help in the war. This became one of the triggers that led to 1882 1927 time by Shamrock Farms. The Prescott Daily Courier is founded. • Carr Tenney Mortuary in Tempe begins operations. the U.S. becoming involved in World War I. • Horse Mesa Dam is fi nished along the 1892 • Douglas incorporates. • The Bisbee deportation occurs: About 1,300 miners Salt River. 1935 • The Arizona Medical Association and Maricopa County striking the Phelps Dodge Corp. were kidnapped by 1883 • The American Automobile Association • Hoover Dam is completed, creating Medical Association are founded. 1906 vigilantes, herded onto cattle cars and shipped to Prescott and Mesa are incorporated. starts its Arizona Chapter. a link between Arizona and Nevada • First American Title Insurance Co. starts operations. • Arizona News Service, the original publisher of the Hermanas, N.M., in an effort to break the strike. and a way to protect Colorado River 1885 • Valley of the Sun YMCA opens its doors. Arizona Capitol Times, begins operations. • Wilhelm Automotive, an auto repair shop, opens in Peoria. • Holbrook incorporates. 1928 water for the Southwestern states. • Tempe Normal School (now Arizona State University) • The Hotel Westward Ho opens its • Sky Harbor Airport is purchased by is founded. 1893 1907 doors. At 208 feet, it remained the 1918 the city of Phoenix for $100,000 • The University of Arizona is established in Tucson. Nogales becomes the fi rst Arizona border town to incorporate. • St. Luke’s Medical Center in Phoenix begins tallest building in the city for 30 years. • The Arizona Nurses Association begins representing from the Acme Investment Co. • The Arizona Canal is completed by a collective of farmers treating patients. • The Hotel San Carlos opens its doors, caregivers at the state’s fl edgling hospitals. who later formed the Salt River Project. 1894 • Globe incorporates. becoming a draw for Hollywood and • The Organization House, the fi rst building on what later PROVIDED BY CITY OF PHOENIX 1936 • Law fi rm Fennemore Craig PC is founded in Phoenix. Tempe and Flagstaff become cities. political celebrities. Luhr’s Tower opened in 1929. became the Wigwam Resort, opens. The Salt River Project Agricultural 1908 • The Security Building opens on Central • Miami incorporates. Improvement and Power District is 1886 1896 • O’Neil’s Printing opens its fi rst shop in Phoenix. Avenue. formed, the second of two entities that today comprise SRP. Phoenix Illuminating Gas and Electric Co., which would • The Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce is formed. • The Tempe Chamber of Commerce starts up. • Tempe State Teachers College becomes Arizona State become Arizona Public Service Co., is founded. • Florence Crittenton Services Inc., a nonprofi t group that 1919 Teachers College. helps young women, starts its Valley operations. 1909 • The Grand Canyon National Park Act passes, creating the more than 1,900-square-mile park that now draws more 1888 Wickenburg and Clifton incorporate. 1929 The Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce starts up. 1897 than 5 million visitors a year. • The Peoria Chamber of Commerce is founded. • The Heard Museum, dedicated to Native American • Joseph Greenhut and Deloss Brown fi le Peoria’s town site 1910 cultures, opens on Central Avenue in Phoenix. 1890 with the Maricopa County Recorder’s Offi ce, naming the Glendale incorporates. • The Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa opens as Phoenix’s 1920 • The Arizona Republican (now The Arizona Republic) settlement after their hometown of Peoria, Ill. fi rst resort. Gilbert and Chandler incorporate. begins publication. • Rosenzweig’s Jewelry opens. • The Luhrs Tower opens in downtown Phoenix. • The Orpheum Theatre opens. Work on Theodore Roosevelt Dam began in 1921 1899188999 1905 and was completed in 1911. • Sundt Construction Co. moves its Tempe became a city in 1894. • GilaGiG llaa VValleyala leley BankBaB nkk establishesests aabb its roots in Arizona. Today, • The El Zaribah Shrine Auditorium W.T. and Winifred McClellan headquarters to Phoenix. PROVIDED BY SALT RIVER PROJECT PROVIDED BY CITY OF TEMPE asas JJPMorganPMPMororgag n CChChase,hase,e iit is the second-largest fi nancial opens in Phoenix. founded Shamrock Dairy • The Wigwam Resort opens with 24 servicesseservrvicces providerprorovviideer opoperatingpe in the state. • John and Geneva LeSueur of Mesa in 1922. guest rooms. • ThatcherThThatatchcheerr aandndn JJeromeereromome incorporate as Arizona cities. donate their home to create the FILE PHOTOS • Northern Arizona Teachers College community’s fi rst hospital, with six becomes Arizona State Teachers PROVIDED BY ARIZONA BILTMORE beds.bbeedss. BaBannerannneer HHealth’seae ltth s rootsrorootots trttraceracace backbbackc 1900 College. The Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa became the Valley’s fi rst toto tthishhis doddonation.nanatitionon. Florence and Winslow incorporate. • Tolleson and Buckeye incorporate. resort in 1929. • ConstructionCCoonnsstrtruucctit onon andandd contractingconntrt acactit ngng companycocommppana y JoJJohnsonohnhnsson CarlierCaC rlrlieer Inc.Inncc. sstartstaartrts 1901 opooperationspererata ioonss iinn PhPPhoenix.hoeoennixx. Safford and Williams incorporate. Sky Harbor Airport was bought by the city of Phoenix in 1935. PROVIDED BY PHOENIX AIRPORT MUSEUM 1902 Bisbee incorporates. 1903 The Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association (now Salt River Project) is founded..
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