History of Phoenix, AZ
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Phoenix, AZ is the capital and the largest city of Arizona US state, as well as the most populated city of in the US. However, it isn’t a new city. This city was also named as the valley of sun and it first became populated some 1200 years ago. Since then, it has faced many things, like drought, dissertation, wars and it was even captured by the military several times. In other word this city has quite an extensive and interesting history. This article will tell a brief history of Phoenix, AZ, that is how it came in to beings, what happened across the years, and how it became the most populous, largest and capital city of US state of Arizona.
The people who came to this land and settled here were Native American, known as Hohokam Indians. They were farmers and irrigated the land to grow crops. They dug out roughly 135 miles (217 km) of irrigation canals which made the desert land arable. Even today the canals that are made in this city are made on the same places and ways the Native’s made at their time. However, the land was abandoned by these peoples between 1300 and 1450. It is trusted that the cause was the long drought. However, the land was totally abandoned except for a wandering mountain man or an occasional traveler. Moreover, before the 1860s the place remained depopulated and nobody tried to settle here.
The history of Phoenix, AZ as a city began with an American civil war veteran Jack Swilling, who came to west to look for wealth. It was in 1857 that he set foot in this valley and saw its potential, that if there was a proper supply of water in the Phoenix, it would bloom. Hence he Swilling developed several irrigation canals which largely followed the ancient ruins and channel ways left by the Hohokam; his plan worked and soon a thriving settlement was formed with Swilling acting as general postmaster and leader of the small community. The community would have remained isolated but for the fact that in 1881 or so, a rail road track was laid down near the city, hence, city became a stop for the people and many people especially workers came to the city and the city started to grow and develop, its economy revolutionized and at the end of 1881 it has passed its original size as that in the time of the natives.
In 1902, thanks to Theodore Roosevelt, dams started to be built in the city, first dam was completed in 1911 and several lakes were made around the mountain range. On February 14th, 1912, the city upgraded to the capital of Arizona and soon outgrew the other towns in the state. In 1913, it adopted a new government of council mayor, making Phoenix one of the first towns in US of this type of City government. Amid World War II, Phoenix’s economy moved to that of an appropriation focus, quickly transforming into an embryonic mechanical city with large scale manufacturing of military supplies. The city continued to grow economically and population wise and today is among the most advanced cities of US.