Presidio Wall & Pithouse
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unimoggers
N 32° 13.476 W 110° 58.396
12S E 502518 N 3565331
I found this while spending a rainy day in Tucson. What's exciting is also the Hohokam village.
Waymark Code: WM2B1Z
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 10/05/2007
Views: 73
MARKER TEXT:
This marker locates the northeast corner of the adobe wall which surrounded the Royal Spanish Presidio San Agustin del Tucson. It is thought that a bastion, used as a lookout and as a defensive position, stood here. The site was excavated in 1954 by archaeologists who discovered beneath the wall a prehistoric Hohokam Indian dwelling, part of a village which existed here about 800 A.D. This pithouse, so named because the floor is below the level of the ground, provides evidence that Tucson is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in America.
Marker Name: Presidio Wall & Pithouse
Type of history commemorated: Place
County: Pima
Name of any agency/ agencies setting marker:
Tucson-Pima County Historical Commission and
Arizona Historical Society
Year placed: 1999
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