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Prescott
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Date Established1864Websitehttps://www.prescott-az.gov/Description
Named for a historian, William Hickling Prescott whose findings were confirmed by “Aztec memorials” in the area. The town has a prominent history as the territorial capital from 1863-1867 and again from 1877-1889 and it is also home to the first rodeo held in 1888 and now an annual tradition on the 4th of July.
Citation: Byrd H. Granger, Arizona's Names: X Marks the Place (Tucson, AZ: Falconer Pub., 1983).500.
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Prescott. Arizona Memory Project, accessed 01/12/2023, https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/nodes/view/249168