Residents relish history of old homes

In 1898, a young German immigrant made claim to a barren chunk of land known today as Jefferson Park Neighborhood. As the story goes, Anna Stattelman homesteaded on a 158-acre tract of land north of the University of Arizona. In 1899, she married Frank Lester, the superintendent of Mammoth Mines. She was a passenger in wagons that traveled to and from the mines, and was said to once have hidden a pile of gold bullion from suspected bandits underneath the nursing baby in her arms.