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Dunbar School (Tucson, Arizona)

1913 establishments in Arizona1978 disestablishments in ArizonaEducational institutions disestablished in 1978Educational institutions established in 1913National Register of Historic Places in Tucson, Arizona
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Dunbar School was a segregated middle school in Tucson, Arizona which closed as an integrated school in 1978.The school, during its segregated era, was named after African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar.

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Dunbar School (Tucson, Arizona)
West 2nd Street, Tucson

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Paul Laurence Dunbar School (historic) (John Spring Junior High School)

West 2nd Street
85703 Tucson
Arizona, United States
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The Stone Avenue Underpass, known to native Tucsonans as "Lake Elmira", is a historic underpass on Stone Avenue in Tucson, Arizona.The underpass was completed in January 1936. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It is located between 6th street and E. Toole Avenue/W. Franklin Street, and carries two lanes in each direction of Stone Ave under the Union Pacific railroad tracks that run through downtown Tucson. Due to the poor drainage, it fills fast during heavy downpours of rain because of that was nicknamed Lake Elmira. It was named after 13 year old Elmira Doakes, by Arizona Daily Star reporter Howard Owetly in the summer of 1937. In the 1980s, two young history buffs had a zinc plaque made and placed it on one of pillars without permission from the City Of Tucson or The Arizona Historical Society. It reads in English and Spanish:“Lake Elmira. According to a 1937 newspaper account, thirteen year old Elmira Doakes (daughter of Joseph Doakes of Tucson) was the first person to successfully swim across the body of water which formed in the Stone Avenue Underpass (during summer rains). Her route from the Toole Avenue Landing to the Northern Shore has not to our knowledge been followed since. There is apparently no truth to the rumor that the Federal aid was denied in 1940 for building docking facilities and a chlorinating system in this once popular recreational area. (Although the Doakes current whereabouts is not known, it is believed that she moved to California after the Underpass received more efficient drains in the mid-sixties.