WILL C. BARNES' ARIZONA PLACE NAMES Revised and enlarged by BYRD H. GRANGER Illustrated by ANNE MERRIMAN PECK THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON 1960 j,. tv' P, ~JI l.4 try SANTA CRUZ COUNTY a ad .). 1 II I I Old-time mining ­ Spanish arrastra ­ bringing up ore with windlass ­ the Mowry Mine. I , PLACE NAMES I SANTA CR BRUCE, MOUNT • P.o. est. as Tucson, December 4, 1856. Elias Brevoort, p.m. P.( El.: c. 6000' Loc.: Santa Cruz HI-l Name changed to Fort Buchanan, July 5, 1857. Discont. Octo­ Di , ber 21, 1860. Au Charles M. Bruce, manager for the Babocomari Cattle Ref.: 85, pp. 483, 525; 111, p. 150; Richard S. C. Lord, Lt., Re Company, had headquarters near the base of this moun­ APHS File; 75, p. 126; P.O. Records. Maps: C-1; E-l1; tain. He served in 1893 as Secretary for Arizona Territory. ( E-17; GL-3. a.n 2 This mountain was named for him prior to 1899 by the BUENA VISTA LAND GRANT Pima County Board of Supervisors. A bronze tablet was r erected on the north face of Mount Bruce c. 1913. El.: c. 4000' Loc.: Santa Cruz EF-5 v.n Pro.: Ibweyn;! viyst;!1 Spanish: "good view" Ref.: Barnes; APHS Names File. Map: C-12. This Mexican land grant was made on October 24, 1831, a.n. Bruce Canyon Map: C-12 Santa Cruz to Dona Josefa Morales. It consisted of 18,640 acres and Re The old Indian trail into Mexico ran along this canyon, at was known as the Maria Santissima del Carmen Land the mouth of which Bruce had his headquarters. Grant. Following the Gadsden Purchase, the United States Ref.: APHS Files. Land Grant Court confirmed 7,128 acres of the grant to z men named Maish and Driscoll. z BUCHANAN, FORT Ref.: Barnes; 55, p. 428. Maps: C-12; C-5; GL-2. o El.: c. 5000' Loc.: Santa Cruz G-1.6 Troops which had been sent to Tucson in the late fall of CALABASAS l. 1856 remained only long enough to receive orders to estab­ EI.: c. 3400' Loc.: Santa Cruz DE-3.6 n lish a camp near what is today Patagonia. In November Pro.: Ik~bbres;!sl or lkabbas<lsl Spanish: "calabashes" a When Fr. Kino was in southern Arizona in the late 1600's, Re y 1856, Maj. Enoch Steen completed the formal establish­ ment of what was known as Camp Moore. It is possible there was a Sobaipuri rancheria at this location. It shows as San Gaetan on the 1701 Kino map; another name for Ct that this was named for Lt. I. N. Moore, who was in charge it was San Cayetano de Calabazas. Until 1784 it was a of a company of infantry. EI. visita of Guevavi (q.v.). Here in 1797 were erected a church Prc The name was changed on November 17 to Fort Buchanan • and house for the priest. From 1784 to 1797, Calabasas Th -1. to honor James Buchanan, then President of the United j l, was probably a visita of Tubac. v.n. States. It is significant that the postmaster for this location Sometime between 1797 and 1828, Calabasas became a was Elias Brevoort. At that time Tucson was a small and l ranch. By 1851 the hacienda was in ruins, according to ReI unimportant location, and it would seem that the post office Commissioner Bartlett of the United States Boundary Sur­ established as "Tucson" on December 4, 1856, moved with vey party. Bartlett conjectured that the place was named C~ the troops in November to the new location, particularly Calabasas because of the number of wild gourds in the El. since Brevoort came from New Mexico specifically to be valley. Apparently the old Rancho de la Calabasas was at WI a sutler for the troops. The name "Tucson" for the post one time prior to 1853 the property of Gov. Gandara of for tab 1 office was changed to Fort Buchanan on June 5,1857, with Sonora, Mexico, and later it was used as a Mexican military ea~ j- Elias Brevoort remaining as postmaster. The delay is not post, convenient for troops because the ranch was on the surprising, considering slowness of communication, the main road from Hermosillo, Mexico, to the interior of 18l dragging tendency of red tape and the vast distance between Arizona. Se( Washington and Arizona. Another possible origin of the name is that given by Reid, the in Southern Arizona was noted for its sympathy with the de­ who on February 8, 1857, attributed the name to an old ReI 3 veloping Confederate cause. In the late 1850's, the Secre­ yellow adobe house on the right bank of the Santa Cruz tary of War for the United States pursued a policy through­ River at its juncture with Sonoita Creek. e out the nation of placing as many stores as possible where In 1856 United States First Dragoons were quartered at they might conceivably fall into Southern hands at a later the old Calabasas ranch. The troops stayed until 1858, with Maj. Enoch Steen commanding. For a while thereafter Cala­ s date. Fort Buchanan became the depository of more than CA basas was deserted, but it came back to life following the a million dollars in military supplies, the plan being to have EI. Civil War when in 1864 Fort Mason (cf. Fort McKee) them seized by the Confederate Column which was to I Th ~ was established. Troops were again withdrawn in 1866 and not march from Texas to lay hands on the rich silver mines of Calabasas dozed into somnolence. The sleeping ended when z Arizona and the gold of California. The Confederate plans ! 18~ it was rumored the railroad planned to put a branch to Ref were not destined to be fuIfiIled. The first step toward Mexico and that it would pass through Calabasas. There closing Fort Buchanan occurred with the abandonment of were those who firmly believed that Calabasas would boom CA its post office on October 21, 1860. Early in July 1861, as the port of entry, and the rush was on. The finest brick El. 5 Moore-now a captain-received orders from the headquar­ hotel in the territory was built. A tent city sprang up over­ PrC' 1- ters of the Department of New Mexico to burn Fort Breck­ night. Before long, the tents were folded and silently stolen No 1, enridge and then Fort Buchanan. On July 21, 1861, under away when the railroad chose to make Nogales its point tra the command of Lt. Richard Lord, Fort Buchanan was of entry. Gl completely destroyed. The name survives in the Calabasas School District. tair 11 ~ 316 ARIZONA PLACE NAMES f,. ~~ ~ the name Sierra de la Santa Cruz to what was probably abandoned because of unhealthy conditions. Three weeks F later divided into the Patagonia Mountains and the Canelo later a newspaper article stated that the camp was in the E Hills. The earlier name in alI likelihood came from the process of breaking up. P community of Santa Cruz just below the border in Sonora. Ref.: 52, V, 251; 85, p. 339; Weekly Arizona Miner, June 8, I: 1 1872, 2: 1, June 29, 1879, 2: 1; 75, p. 130. Maps: C-3; From 1896 the Canelo HilIs disappear from maps until n GLO 1909. The name is descriptive of the fact that the E-20; GL-3. r a.n. CriHenden Maps: C-6; GL-3 Santa Cruz 1 hills have a light brown color not unlike that of cinnamon. Cas a Blanca, Spanish: "white house," the earliest known d Ref.: G. E. P. Smith, Letter to Board on Geographic Names, name for this location, is recorded in the field notes of T. F. h July 16, 1941; APHS Names File. Maps: C-8; GB-13; White, a surveyor, in late 1876, under a notation, "Casa GL-3. 0 Blanca, an adobe." This would indicate that the name is h a.n. Canelo Map: C-12 Santa Cruz descriptive, although White said nothing further. Casa This is a small community store today. Blanca was in existence as early as 1860 when it had a post J- P.O. est. as Canille, August 22, 1904. Robert A. Rodgers, p.m. office. In January 1866, some Mexicans set up a mescal r! Discont. April 10, 1924. factory here, but were stolen out of business. Two members having been killed, the others abandoned the project. R Canelo Pass Map: GL-2 Santa Cruz The proximity of this place to Fort Crittenden underwrote its existence as a community. The census of 1870 reported a CARMEN fifty-two residents in Casa Blanca. Meanwhile the aban­ E1.: c. 3800' Loc.: Santa Cruz CD-2-3 doned post office was reopened in 1873 and, as was cus­ (; In November 1918 Mrs. Carmen Zepeda set up a trading tomary, under the new name of Crittenden. The year store and homesteaded about three hundred acres here. coincides fairly closely with the abandonment of Fort E Crittenden (see above). In the late 1890's Rollen R. ( She was the sole resident at what has since developed into Richardson (who owned the land) moved the trading post, a small community named for her. the town, and the railroad station to what is now Patagonia t: Ref.: Mrs. Carmen Zepeda. Maps: B-3; C-ll. (q.v.). The station had in former years been important to I the Harshaw and Mowry Mines. There had also been a 1 CHIMINEA MOUNTAIN mill at Crittenden in the late 1870's.