Collection: Street Smarts 2015
Learn how many of Tucson's streets, roads and highways got their names.
Sara Lemmon, namesake of mountain and road, loved intellectual challenges and plants.
Echols asked film-star friend to help him get elected; Rogers made error.
Union Parkβs glory days appear to have been short.
A long line of blacksmiths worked along Callejon Del Herrero.
Redington started with a hungry man who traded his saddle for corn.
Girls graded on math, darning socks; boys on reciting history, wielding hoes.
During a varied career Stanley Williamson was a banker, a rancher, a soldier, a realtor and a developer.
Road was the starting point from Tucson for people heading north.
News in 1911 that Tucson would be the terminal of the El Paso & Southwestern Railroad led to public celebration and congratulation.
Popular four-time mayor once got 100 of 101 votes cast.
Sawtelle let county build road on his land without financial compensation.
Starr Pass Road was originally called the Quijotoa Toll Road.
In 1897,Β border towns had 2,000 people on each side of line.
Osborne Avenue is named for William Osborn. Oops.
"I never heard anything from (people who knew Earp) about any of the good or great deeds that he is supposed to have done," Roy Drachman said.
One is east-west, the other north-south, but in early Tucson they were one and the same.
News of possible Hughes Aircraft plant sparked land rush that benefitted sleepy Tucson
Businessman Columbus Glasmann was brewer, saloon keeper, rancher, manager and real estate investor.
He was University of Arizona president for 20 years.
It was to be an alternative route to get to the site.
Early MayorΒ βGusβ HoffΒ made sidewalks, streets a priority.
"Red" Russell started the power company - and had a business selling electrical supplies from the lobby
Former UA president Koffler started development to keep former academics, executives sharp.
Salvaged bell was originally part of the USS Arizona, hit hard during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Robert H. Forbes was a man of many skills and talents
Maclovio R. βMacβ Barraza began working in mines at 11.
Many of many talents, interests remembered with midtown street
Road runs along the northern border of the family homestead.
Pima County's "Road #55" was changed to Cloud Road soon after it was built in 1922.
Old-money support helps create The Gregory School
