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Hi is site was first visited by Padre Kino in 1691.
Leaving headquarters at Lolores in Mexico, late in the year-, aceonna-niod by t'c Father Via&tor, Jusn Maria Galvatierra, he traveled by way of Pueblo do Maria Magdalena and n land called 111 Tupo to the mission of ran Pedro y San ’table do Tubutansa on the Altar River. Thence, they vent to Carlo and Tucubavi, In the sane vicinity. Here they were ret by a delegation of Soainurls who had core from, the region about where the present Tumacacori Mission now stands. The Indians asked the father to visit them and he did so, probably going by v:ay of the site of the present City of Nogales to Guevovi and thence onward to Tumaeacori•
Of more than local interest, Tuinacecori was one of the first settlements to be established in the United States by the old Spanish Missionaries in their jovtrneyings *Tora the I-’io Grande to the missions -.on the Pacific Const. Founded in 1607 by Jesuit Father Francisco Kino, the mission v;-s started about 1730, and was one of the series of missions of which eleven are in Sonora, Mexico.
A few miles north is Tubac, settled by the Spaniards in 1720 from whence In 1734, a military expedition under Captain Juan Bautista ansa marched to San •/•ancisco Bay, founded the Presidio there and named it the "G2ty of the Golden Gate". The first mining claim filed In Arizona-was sent from Tubac and the first printing press in Arizona was set up here.
The history of Nogales dates back to the Spanish Conqusat and subsequent to the establishment of the Presidio of Tubac, was occupied by crown soldiers to protect adja cent miring operations.
Thereafter for 126 years, Nogales eras Spanish territory until 1064 wi.cn, by the Gadsden hvrcha.se, the U.S. Government acquired from Mexico what is new Santa Cruz County. Shortly after, this came the e?tablishnent of Camp Moore (1866) and Port Mason (1065).
In 1830, Nogales was a small trading post consisting of a few tumble-down shacks enclosed by a wall of occatlllas { a desert shrub) plastered rith mud. In 1893, the town was. incorporated o.r.d called Nogales, which, is the Spanish word for "Walnuts", because in the very early days, northbound travelers from Mexico used to make camp under the shade of "los nogales"—the treos to which tho city still owes much of its beauty. In 1919 it was incorporated as a city and divided into wards.
A Tour1st31 Paradlse.
A trie to Nogales, Arizona, with Nogales, Sonora, "lust across the street" is well worth anyone's time, as the Sonora city boasts of many beautiful and well conducted cafes and cabarets. Among this is the Gave which is unique in that it is located in the hillside carved entirely cut of solid rock;, tho Cavern which is the old jail; the Club Royal, which was once a famous casino; the Old Aztec Club, located next toe tho Ball "ark and the International Casino, once the home of President Alvaro Obrogon. The Plaza in Nogales, Sonora, is of tho