1883: The Southern Pacific Railroad Company completes its transcontinental "Sunset Route," which runs between New Orleans and California.
1900: Charles Hayden, who established the famous Tempe flour mill and ferry, dies.
1911: The construction of Roosevelt Dam is completed. Theodore Roosevelt dedicates the dam on March 18. It was 284 feet high, 184 feet thick at the base and impounded a 23-mile-long lake.
1952: Two crumbling columns from Mission San Xavier del Bac leave for Los Angeles to be duplicated. Ten new columns will be made as part of a renovation of the mission. The whole project is expected to take five years at a cost of $30,000.
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