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Phoenix incorporated
1881
Phoenix, Arizona
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A town of about 2,500 with a mule-drawn streetcar, incorporated on land that had been farmed a thousand years earlier. It took the territorial capital from Prescott in 1889 by arguing it was more central and better watered.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: city-level
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