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Tolleson
Jim Green
Jimmy Ruiz
出版
Arcadia Publishing
, 2008
主題
History / United States / State & Local / General
History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
ISBN
0738556300
9780738556307
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MjNCC_9ovxAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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In 1907, five years before Arizona's statehood, Walter Gist Tolleson and his wife, Alethea, chose the dry Arizona Territory for their sick son. In 1910, they purchased and later subdivided 160 acres just 10 miles from a young settlement known as Phoenix. And in 1912, the town of Tolleson was born. By the 1940s and 1950s, the community had become the "Vegetable Center of the World." The area that was once an agricultural mecca is now divided by suburban sprawl, but Tolleson's original spirit remains. It is bustling with growing schools and industry, as well as world-class sports, shopping, and entertainment facilities, all surrounding a 6-square-mile community with small-town pride. That inexhaustible spirit continues to make Tolleson one of the greatest places in the country to live.