History

By Raquel Hendrickson Frustrated and angry about being relegated to a footnote in the middle of one of the most tense military times in world...

By Michelle Chance Rural Maricopa is home to several archaeological sites that contain petroglyphs along local mountain passes. Aaron Wright, preservation archaeologist with Archaeology Southwest, said...

  This week about 180 Maricopa 14- to 18-year-olds are re-creating the handcart trek of western pioneers across the country. The re-creation, called a Youth Trek,...

Maricopa Historical Society hosted its annual symposium "A Morning of History" Saturday at City Hall, with diverse presentation from Ak-Chin Indian Community, the Buffalo...

In Maricopa, shops and storefronts have come and gone over the past few decades. In the black-and-white photo from the 1960s, you can see...

They often say one must think small to make it big, but for Ernie Adams it’s better to think big to make it small.“I...

  A look back 15 years: In 2008, while most of Maricopa was kicking back to celebrate the passing of another year, Maricopa Police Chief Patrick...

In this aerial photo from 1955, Maricopa High School is in the foreground. Beyond are pecan orchards and desert. Today the high school remains and...

Maricopa’s property tax as we now know it started in 2006 when residents voted in favor of Proposition 400, a referendum that would allow...

Mary Lou Smith celebrated her 90th birthday Saturday, greeted with a parade of family and friends who drove by her home honking horns and...

People are moving to Maricopa every day. But do the newcomers — or the old timers, for that matter — give any thought to the...

This story was published 15 years ago this week, written by RuthAnn Hogue. Maricopa's annual fishing derby for kids attracted 579 anglers, hosts and representatives...

The changing skyline of Maricopa is evident in historic and modern photos of the same stretch of railroad tracks. In 1911, the depot was...

By Maricopa Historical Society David Patton Kimball opened the first drugstore in Maricopa in 1956. He and his wife, the former Nellie Nash, came from...

The city of Maricopa has witnessed numerous changes since its incorporation in 2003. New homes bloomed, businesses formed and the population swelled. Kazi Haque, zoning...

The first transcontinental flight in the United States, a Wright Model EX piloted by Calbraith Perry Rodgers, landed in Maricopa on Nov. 1, 1911....

Fred Cole served as the Maricopa postmaster from 1955 to 1982. The post office was in the Honeycutt Shopping Center until it was destroyed by fire...

A print of a 100-year-old photograph was found in a Maricopa library book, and the Maricopa Historical Society is trying to find out who...

After a group in Orange County, California, started a movement to remove John Wayne’s name from the airport in Santa Ana, the chatter began...

The 1917 perspective of what used to be the town center no longer exists but for the top of the ever-present water tower. The...

  Winston Churchill once said, “history is written by the victors,” alluding to a reality in which often only self-serving histories are memorialized. Despite criticisms...

The last of three massive water towers that marked the Maricopa area on the railroad tracks in the 1880s, the 60-foot water tower has...

The State Route 347/John Wayne Parkway railroad overpass was a major step forward in moving traffic through Maricopa. It came at a price, however. The...

By Michael K. Rich John Smith, a Maricopa resident since 1951, sits in an old reclining chair by his living room window, looking out at...

In August 2012, a trifecta of heat, humidity and standing water left mosquitoes feeling right at home in Maricopa, and Maricopans were itching like...

Written by Harry C Brock for Maricopa Historical Society Jim and Louise Slack and their three children came to Maricopa in 1956 from Casa Grande....

This building was Southern Pacific Railroad’s Maricopa depot from the early 1930s through 1961. The depot was then moved to Phoenix as a playhouse in...

In the history of Maricopa, a man named Perry Williams is noted three ways. An entrepreneur, he built Hotel Williams in 1884 on the...

They've put on the uniforms of the United States of America's armed forces to defend our rights and our way of life. Many of them...

The growth of Maricopa was dramatic between 2002 and 2006, when the city was a poster child of the housing boom. The post-recession surge...