Car Rental in Peoria, AZ

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INTERESTED IN THE HISTORY OF PEORIA, ARIZONA?

"Phoenix's founder, a saloon brawler and drug addict named Jack Swilling,  re-excavated a network of prehistoric Hohokam Indian canals that irrigated thousands of acres of farmland along the Salt River. His efforts also helped give birth to Southeast Valley Settlements that became the cities of Tempe and Mesa.
Unfortunately, for the northern and western portions of the Salt River Valley, no Indian Canals were there to restore. So the lands that make up Northwest Phoenix, Glendale and Peoria today remained raw desert more than 15 years after the East Valley cities had already been settled. For the barren Northwest Valley to come to life, it, too, needed that all-powerful resource--water."
The idea was soon born to build a canal 44 miles long from its heading on the Salt River westward across the northern part of the Valley to the Agua Fria River. Thus, the Arizona Canal Co. was incorporated on December 20, 1882, by M.W.. Kales, William A. Hancock and Clark Churchill, three prime builders of pioneer Arizona... After conquering gigantic engineering problems, (William James Murphy) watched triumphantly  as the first water flowed through the newly constructed Arizona Canal in May 1885." "In 1888, a persistent (William James) Murphy successfully convinced Joseph G. Greenhut, an influential businessman from Peoria, Illinois, to promote and found the settlement of "new" Peoria about 13 miles northwest of Phoenix. In that same year, Murphy and others constructed a diagonal road, known as Grand Avenue, from Phoenix to Peoria, thereby providing the first direct link to the northwestern portion of the Valley from Phoenix."

September 24, 2007