Sources:

Interview with Jane (Williamson) Hibner Bailey, daughter of Stanley Williamson, Jan. 13, 2014

Biographical file on Stanley Williamson (according to his daughter, it was written by her father in 1940; Williamson family archives)

New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962 (familysearch.org)

1900 U.S. Census (Rahway city, Ward 3, Union County, New Jersey)

Ruth Wallach, “Miracle Mile in Los Angeles: History and Architecture,” The History Press, 2013

How Miracle Mile Got Its Name in L.A.: www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/history/la-as-subject/how-the-miracle-mile-got-its-name-a-brief-history-of-las-unlikely-retail-district.html

John Kenneth Turner, “Barbarous Mexico,” Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1910

Edward H. Spicer, “Cycles of conquest; the impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on the Indians of the Southwest, 1533-1960,” University of Arizona Press, 1962

Tucson City Ordinance # 2108 (Passed, Adopted and Approved Nov. 21, 1960)

Tucson City Ordinance # 2294 (Passed, Adopted and Approved May 7, 1962)

Tucson City Ordinance # 6603 (Passed, Adopted and Approved Feb. 2, 1987)

Miracle Mile ad, Arizona Daily Star, Sept. 11, 1936

“Highway Bids To Be Asked,” Tucson Citizen, Jan. 6, 1937

Demion Clinco, “Historic Miracle Mile Tucson’s Northern Auto Gateway: A Historic Context Study of the Oracle Area,” City of Tucson, 2009


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