A list of web links to 73 history
museums in Arizona. The perfect starting point for
research into Arizona history. The extensive list
contains little-known museums like The Rex Allen Museum
in Willcox, the Titan Missile Museum in Sahuarita,
and the Hall of Flame Museum of Fire Fighting in Phoenix.
The history of Arizona’s highways captured in photos and brief commentaries. U.S.routes, state routes, interstate routes, urban freeways, and goofs and oddities are some of the categories to explore. Check out the Interstate Exit List for I-17. It gives you the numbers, names, and speed limits associated with every exit. My favorite section on this wonderful website is “Historic Maps”. The scanned map images enlarge to reveal excellent detail. The maps included are for 1927, 1935, 1938, 1961, and 1971. The older maps reveal dirt roads and primary highways that today are difficult to find. Driving dirt roads is one of my passions. Nothing like hitting the back roads and finding sleepy towns that seem frozen in time or historic ranches stashed in remote valleys. As late as the early 1980’s there were a few out-of-the-way hamlets in the territory with gas stations that still used hand-cranked, gravity-feed gas pumps. Young, Arizona was one of them. Today it is still only reachable by dirt road.
Search the ASM library, archives, and archaeological records of over 50,000 volumes, many of which are rare titles, and their stunning collection of over 1,500 periodicals. This is the serious place to start your archaeological and ethnohistorical research.
I really like the photos and descriptions this site features for every train station in Arizona. Some are no larger than the size of a bedroom and a few are still in operation. This website is also a rally point for a future urban light rail system in Phoenix and expanded rail service throughout the state.
