COMMUNITY GUIDE
History
700 A.D.
Hohokam Native Americans arrive in the Cave Creek area.
They developed extensive irrigation systems and trade routes
1870
Colonel George Stoneman built a
1873 1873 1928
military road between Ft. McDow-
Last cavalry - Apache skir- Miners moved in – 144 square mile Spur Cross Dude
ell and Ft. Whipple with a cavalry
mish in the area. The Cave area known as Cave Creek Mining
Ranch established
remount station along the route in
District established -First recorded
Cave Creek
Creek wagon road was built
from Phoenix to Cave Creek gold mine, called the Continental
1870 1875 1880 1885 1890 1895 1900 1905 1910 1915 1920 1925 1930 1935 1940 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005
1880s
Cattle ranchers
1870s
settled in Cave
1920s 1935–1944
Naming of Cave Creek – Either
Creek area
Land south of Black Construction of Bartlett
named for cave on Cave Creek
Mountain opened for and Horseshoe Dams
stream shown on old military map
homesteading and Tubercular
or named for Edward G. Cave,
cabins built in Cave Creek
“Old Rackensack,” early miner
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