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A section of the winding Apache Trail overlooking the scenic Superstition Mountains
pottery on display at the Heard hills nearby. The silver was quickly structure that makes up
Museum (see pp82–3), built exhausted, but copper mining the Casa Grande National
these pueblos of rock and mud thrived until 1931. Today, Globe Monument is one of the most
in the early 14th century. has an attractive historic district distinctive. Built in the early
A steep, short trail with several notable late decades of the 14th century
leads up to the 19th- and early 20th- and named the “Big House” by
19-room Lower Cliff century buildings. The a passing Jesuit missionary in
Dwelling, but the Gila County Historical 1694, this sturdy four-story
40-room Upper Cliff Museum outlines its structure has walls up to 4-ft
Dwelling can be history, with displays (1.2-m) thick and is made from
visited only with a of a wide range of locally quarried caliche, a hard-
ranger on weekends mining paraphernalia. setting subsoil. Experts believe
from November On the south side that the holes cut in three
to April. Mining artifacts at the Gila County of town are the of the walls were used for
Historical Museum Besh-Ba-Gowah astronomical observations, but
T Tonto National Ruins, home of the this is conjecture. The interior
Monument Salado people in the 13th and is out of bounds, but visitors
Hwy 188. Tel (928) 467-2241. 14th centuries. can stroll round the exterior.
Open 8am–5pm daily. Closed The visitor center has some
Dec 25. & ∑ nps.gov/tont P Gila County interesting exhibits on
Historical Museum Hohokam history and culture.
1330 N. Broad St. Tel (928) 425-7385. Casa Grande is located
3 Globe Open 10am–4pm Tue–Fri, 11am– 15 miles (24 km) east of
3pm Sat. Closed Sun, Mon, Jan 1,
Road map C4. * 6,000. @ Dec 25. 8 donation requested. Interstate Highway 10 (I-10)
n Globe Chamber of Commerce, on the outskirts of the town
1360 N. Broad St. (928) 425 4495.  of Coolidge. It should not be
∑ globemiamichamber.com 4 Casa Grande confused with the town of
Ruins National Casa Grande, found to the
The mining town of Globe lies west of I-10.
about 100 miles (160 km) east Monument
of Phoenix in the wooded Road map C4. Tel (520) 723-3172.
Dripping Spring and Pinal Open 9am–5pm daily. Closed
Mountains. In 1875, prospectors Thanksgiving, Dec 25. & 7
struck silver near here in what ∑ nps.gov/cagr
was then part of an Apache
Reservation. The reservation From around 200 BC until the
was divested of its silver-bearing middle of the 15th century,
hills, and Globe was founded as the Hohokam people farmed
a mining town and supply the Gila River Valley to the
center. It was named for a southeast of Phoenix. Among
massive nugget of silver, shaped the few Hohokam sites that The fortress-like Casa Grande Ruins
like a globe, unearthed in the remain, the fortress-like National Monument

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