Salt River, the Pima and Maricopa community north of Mesa
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Arizona
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The settlement of Salt River sits on the north bank of the river it is named for, inside the reservation set aside for the Akimel O'odham and the Xalychidom Piipaash in 1879. Its post office opened in 1912 under the run-together spelling Saltriver, then moved to Scottsdale four years later and took the two-word name with it. The community's southern edge presses directly against north Mesa, and it kept its land while the farm towns around it turned into suburbs.
Mentioned in 11 The Hohokam canals modern Phoenix follows 1150 · Pueblo Grande, Phoenix La Casa Vieja, the ferryman's adobe where Tempe began 1873 · Tempe, Arizona A Mountain, a volcanic butte carved with Hohokam petroglyphs 1918 · Tempe, Arizona Tempe fills the dry Salt River bed with Colorado River water 1999 · Tempe, Arizona The Lehi schoolhouse that became the Mesa Historical Museum 1913 · Mesa, Arizona The Mill Avenue bridge replaces the ferry that named Tempe 1931 · Tempe, Arizona The Marquee Theatre, a bankrupt country opry turned rock room 1993 · Tempe, Arizona Tempe Center for the Arts opens on the bed of a river that had run dry 2007 · Tempe, Arizona Scottsdale refuses a concrete flood channel and builds a park instead 1961 · Scottsdale, Arizona Westwood High School, the zoned high school for the Salt River reservation 1962 · Mesa, Arizona Tempe Marketplace, built on two landfills and a wrecking yard 2007 · Tempe, Arizona
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