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    • Orchards grow to commercial sizes

    • Orchards grow to commercial sizes

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    • Farms--Arizona--Sedona

    • The Jordan orchards would eventually boast over 1,500 fruit trees. During World War II, Walter had a contract with the government to ship apples to our troops. He made 8 trips to Phoenix to deliver the order for 1,000 boxes, driving all night to...
    • Manuel Chavez was a scout for the Army

    • Manuel Chavez was a scout for the Army

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    • Pioneers--Arizona--Sedona

    • Manuel Chavez was entitled to a pension from the U.S. Government because of his service as a military scout. When the government didn't hold up their end of the arrangement, at age 70, Chavez rode alone on horseback from Sedona to St. Johns,...
    • Photograph of four-room school house built in 1919

    • Photograph of four-room school house built in 1919

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    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photograph

    • B&W Photograph of four-room school built in 1919 to upgrade from the old church house where school was previously held. There were three teachers, one per room, and the fourth room was used for band or orchestra. By 1926, grades included to the...
    • Scottsdale Ginning Company Cotton Gin

    • Scottsdale Ginning Company Cotton Gin

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    • Photographs -- Scottsdale (Ariz.) -- History; Photography -- Scottsdale (Ariz.) -- History; Scottsdale (Ariz.) -- History -- Photographs

    • Cotton was Scottsdale's largest cash crop from about 1913 through World War II. Cotton had become so important to Scottsdale farmers that local businessman and rancher E.O. Brown, with partners, built Scottsdale its own cotton gin circa 1920. ...
    • Paradise Inn

    • Paradise Inn

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    • Photographs -- Scottsdale (Ariz.) -- History; Photography -- Scottsdale (Ariz.) -- History; Scottsdale (Ariz.) -- History -- Photographs; Paradise Inn

    • Scottsdale area architect and developer R. T. Evans built and opened The Paradise Inn ca 1944-45. Paradise Inn was located on Camelback Road,east of the Jokake Inn, a popular winter resort Evans designed for his wife to operate in 1926. The...
    • Camelback Inn - Mummy Mountain backdrop

    • Camelback Inn - Mummy Mountain backdrop

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    • Photographs -- Scottsdale (Ariz.) -- History; Photography -- Scottsdale (Ariz.) -- History; Scottsdale (Ariz.) -- History -- Photographs; Camelback Inn

    • Jack Stewart opened Camelback Inn in December 1936, and by February 1937, despite the Great Depression, was fully booked with winter visitors. Set between Mummy and Camelback Mountains in Paradise Valley, the resort attracted Hollywood...

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