How an 1887 Sonoran earthquake dried up Southern Arizona wells and springs, fed othersFor Star subscribers: The 1887 Sonora earthquake drastically altered groundwater levels across Southern Arizona, drying some springs and wells while elevating water tables in other areas, impacting local communities and agriculture for decades.
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Bill Finley
Special to the Arizona Daily Star
“A las tres de la tarde, en el tres de Mayo.” At 3 p.m. on May 3, 1887, the bell began to ring at the Church of San Miguel in Bavispe, Sonora, marking the hour as it had for years.
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Paige Moore
Arizona Republic
Arizona may be one of the youngest states in the nation, but that doesn't mean it isn't full of old and historic places.
- Norma Coile
If longtime Tucsonans can seem rather blasé about weather scenarios like the one in our regional news this week, 1997 may well be the reason.
- David Leighton For the Arizona Daily Star
Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in Tucson on Sept. 20, 1959, and on this anniversary of the speech, UA basketball legend Ernie McCray is remembering what it meant to him.
- Paige Moore Arizona Republic
Arizona didn't get its first freeway until 1957. Here's how Black Canyon Freeway helped transform travel across the state.
July 4, 1776, marked the beginning of the American experiment, but it was just another hot summer day in the small, Indigenous village that would give rise to Tucson.
Meet 10 people who helped put Southern Arizona on the map over the past 250 years.
As the American revolutionaries fought to preserve their new Declaration of Independence, they got a little boost from a remote Spanish outpost called the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson.
From a hockey helmet to Geronimo's rifle, a locomotive to an ancient water basket, the Arizona Historical Society offers a Southwestern twist on American history using objects from its collection.
A list of 100 people with ties to Southern Arizona who made their mark on American history over the past 250 years.
Homes on the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, some which were built in the 1950s, are getting a $16 million makeover.
A new effort to identify USS Arizona casualties buried as unknowns in Hawaii is slated to start on Dec. 7, thanks to a civilian-led campaign with a Tucson connection.
Tucsonans have been saluting the flag for the past 250 years, but it hasn't always been the American flag.
A giant fish carved into the ground more than 1,000 years ago was bulldozed during construction of a second border wall in Arizona, according to new images of the damage.
The San Clemente neighborhood is the latest Tucson subdivision to amend its founding documents to remove racist language from the dark days of institutional housing discrimination in America.
A new Tucson Transportation Museum Trail invites visitors to explore six museums and collect stamps along the way.
When the United States celebrated its 100th birthday in 1876, Tucson was still a relatively new addition to the still-expanding nation.
On April 12, the Blenman-Elm neighborhood will once again open its doors — literally and figuratively — to the wider Tucson community with the return of the Blenman-Elm Home Tour: Dwellings Through Time.
Anna Durkee rose from an orphaned childhood in New York to become one of America’s most successful women miners, building a fortune through Alaska garnet operations and Arizona mining ventures while leading one of the world’s first women-run mining companies.
Pioneering homesteader Leonard G. Wagner — who has a new street named after him in Vail — worked in mining, law enforcement and railroading in Pantano, Vail, Helvetia and Tucson starting in about 1900.
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