A collection of the interesting and sometimes unusual events that happened this week in Arizona history.May 22On this date in 1894, Dr. A.E. Douglass selected a site in Flagstaff for the Lowell Observatory.On this date in 1923, four people died in an explosion at the Apache Powder Plant at Benson.On this date in 1925, a solid copper flagpole, donated by Inspiration
A collection of the interesting and sometimes unusual events that happened this week in Arizona history.May 23On this date in 1868, Col. Christopher “Kit” Carson, who directed the campaign against the Navajos which resulted in their surrender and the exile of about half the tribe to Fort Sumner between 1864 and 1868, died at Fort Lyon, Colorado., just nine days before the