Hi...My name is Anita

Welcome to my home on the web, hope you enjoy your visit.


This site was intended to be a site dedicated to environmental issues, and related topics. However, in putting things together, I find that this is a site that will be dedicated to my family and the beauty and grandure of the city of Tucson and State of Arizona. A city and state rich in history and traditions.

The earliest inhabitants of the Tucson area were the Hohokam Indians. They farmed and irrigated the area for more than 700 years, until around 1400AD. There is no record of the Hohokam after that time period, although it is believed that they may have been the forefathers of the Pima Indians. Hohokam in the Pima Indian language means "those who have vanished".

In 1687 Spanish Jesuit missionary Father Eusebio Francisco Kino visited the Pima and Sobaipuri Indians in the Tucson area. He founded the San Xavier Mission in 1700 in the small nearby village of Bac.

Spain was the first country to fly its flag over the settlement of Tucson, which then had the Indian name Stjukshon..pronounced much like Tucson.. which translates roughly to mean "spring at the foot of the black hill.

Tucson became a part of Mexico in 1821 when Mexico gained its independence from Spain.

In 1846 the Morman Battalion commander raised the American flag over Tucson during the Mexican War. The ensuing Treaty of Guadalupe- Hildago in 1848 ceded most of Arizona and New Mexico to the United States. In 1853 the Gadsden Purchase added another 30,000 acres to the United States, and planted the U.S.-Mexico border its present location.

Today Tucson is nearly 800,000 people and growing, although, we manage to retain our sleepy western image, and many of the wonderful cultural customs that helped shape Tucson into what it is today.

I'm proud of my Old Pueblo, and wish you could all visit.

In the wise words of Chief Joseph Seattle, "The earth does not belong to us, we belong to the earth."

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