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| Desert Rat | profile | all galleries >> Arizona >> Tumacácori | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
| Tumacácori National Historical Park is located in the upper Santa Cruz River Valley of southern Arizona. The park protects the ruins of three Spanish mission communities, two of which are National Historic Landmark sites, and it also contains the Tumacacori Museum, a historic landmark building built in 1937 that is also a National Historic Landmark. The park consists of 360 acres (1.5 km2) in three separate units.
The Franciscan churches at San José de Tumacácori and Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi both date to the late 1700s. The earlier Jesuit missions that were established at Tumacacori and Guevavi in 1691 are the two oldest missions in southern Arizona, but there are no visible remains of these early structures. The third unit, San Cayetano de Calabazas, was established in 1756. The Guevavi and Calabazas units are not open to the general public and can only be visited on reserved tours led by park staff. The main unit of the park, the Tumacácori Mission, has a visitor center and museum and is open to the public every day except Christmas and Thanksgiving. A 4.5 miles (7.2 km) segment of the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail lies along the Santa Cruz River between Tumacácori National Historical Park and Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. The site was originally proclaimed Tumacacori National Monument on September 15, 1908, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. On August 6, 1990, it was redesignated a National Historical Park and the Guevavi and Calabazas units were added to the park. From Wikipedia |
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| Tom Briggs | 29-Dec-2009 12:47 | |