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Mesa Historical Museum

Agriculture museums in the United StatesAmerican West museums in ArizonaBuildings and structures completed in 1913City museums in the United StatesCulture of Mesa, Arizona
History museums in ArizonaMuseums established in 1987Museums in Mesa, ArizonaNational Register of Historic Places in Maricopa County, ArizonaWorks Progress Administration in Arizona
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The Mesa Historical Museum is a historical museum in Mesa, Arizona, United States. It was opened in 1987 by the Mesa Historical Society to preserve the history of Mesa, Arizona. The museum's exhibits include a comprehensive history of Mesa, a replica of an early adobe one-room schoolhouse, as well as additional galleries of changing exhibits. The museum also maintains a large collection of historic agricultural equipment. The museum buildings are in fact the museum's largest artifacts. The main museum building was built in 1913-1914 for use as the Lehi School in what was then Lehi, Arizona. The auditorium was built in the 1930s as a Works Progress Administration project. The two-building complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 as the "Lehi School".In 2008, the museum began developing a popular exhibit about Spring Training (baseball) in Arizona, called "Play Ball: The Cactus League Experience." The exhibition has since expanded to locations throughout Maricopa County.

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Mesa Historical Museum
North Horne, Mesa

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North Horne 2345
85203 Mesa
Arizona, United States
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Mesa Grande Cultural Park, in Mesa, Arizona, preserves a group of Hohokam structures constructed during the Classic Period. The ruins were occupied between AD 1100 and 1400 (Pueblo II – Pueblo IV Era) and were a product of the Hohokam civilization that inhabited the Salt River Valley. There the Hohokam constructed an extensive system of water canals. It is one of only two Hohokam mounds remaining in the metro Phoenix area, with the other being the Pueblo Grande Museum Archaeological Park. The site's central feature is a massive ruin of adobe walls and platforms.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 when it was owned by B-movie actress Acquanetta and her husband Jack Ross. The site was acquired from them in 1988 by the city of Mesa.Since the 2013 completion of the Mesa Grande Visitor's Center, the site is seasonally open to the public from October through May.The Mesa Grande Cultural Park is operated by the Arizona Museum of Natural History, which is undertaking archaeological studies there. The mound remains remarkably intact. The general site remains protected but undeveloped. The ruins are located to the west and across the street from the former Mesa Lutheran Hospital, which became a Banner Health corporate center housing billing and information technology employees. Artifacts presumably associated with the ruins have been found in the neighborhood to the west. Axe heads, arrow heads, and pottery sherds were regularly uncovered and collected by residents during the 1960s and 1970s just under the surface of the earth in private property there.