According to legend, Phoenix gets its name from Cambridge-educated pioneer Darrell Duppa, who saw the ruins and prehistoric canals of the Hohokam and believed another civilization would rise from the ashes.
The Mill Avenue Bridge is the oldest automobile crossing on the Salt River in the Phoenix metropolitan area, and has been in continuous use since its completion in 1931.
To create the largest lake in Arizona, “Theodore Roosevelt Dam was the first project undertaken by the U.S. Reclamation Service (now called the Bureau of Reclamation). It was Reclamation’s first hydroelectric project and last masonry dam. Standing 280 feet high and spanning 723 feet across the Salt River Canyon, it was the tallest masonry dam in the world when it was completed in 1911.”
Information provided by ArizonaExperience.org
Members of one Native American tribe still live inside the canyon – The Havasupai Indians (which means “people of the blue-green waters”) live in a village located near Havasu Creek, a tributary of the Colorado River that often sees flash floods.
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