New Museum Name

Historymakers 2014 Exhibit

Exciting things happening with AHS. New name for the museum is Arizona Heritage Center at Papago Park. The new director Tawn Downs made the official announcement at the Unveiling of 2014 Historymakers Exhibit. We are looking forward to seeing the Heritage Center grow with her vision of making it a Cultural Center, a gathering place, more open to the public with events in the courtyard and speaking engagements.

Museum Director Tawn Downs

2014 Historymaker Lattie Coor and
daughter in law Rachel Coor

Historymaker Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Renee Donnelly

Rachel Coor and Sandra Day O'Connor with Tawn Downs

John Lacey: 500 years of Arizona Mining History

A fascinating and colorful history of mining in Arizona was presented at the March Historical League meeting by John Lacey. Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead and Uranium were discovered all over the state from Peeples Valley to Wickenburg, Morenci, Globe, Miami, Jerome and Bisbee. Thanks to the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1872, ores from mines in Arizona were now ready to reach markets all over the country.

Mary Pat Honey presents John Lacy with a thank you gift of Tastes & Treasures cookbook

Mining in Arizona

Guest Speaker for March meeting
John Lacy, a Tucson mineral lawyer and legal historian, will talk about the History of Mining in Arizona and how the changing mining and public land laws (or lack thereof) shaped the efforts of early prospectors and also led to some of the state’s more famous courtroom disputes.
John is a practicing lawyer with the firm of DeConcini McDonald Yetwin & Lacy and is also an ad-junct professor of law and mining and geological engineering at the University of Arizona. He is a former president of the Arizona Historical Society and currently serves as the president of the Arizona History Convention.