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The Arizona
Chapter of The Fulbright Association |
The Field Trip to the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
At 8 AM on Saturday, 7 February 2004, a group of Fulbrighters
boarded a bus for a trip to Coolidge, AZ, the locale of the Casa Grande Ruins
NM. Dr. Matthew Whittaker (ASU Professor of History) presented a well-received
lecture to the group about African American History in Arizona,
covering, among other topics within the overall subject, the "Buffalo
Soldiers" and black cowboys.
The "Big House," now protected from the
elements under a over-arching roof, is one of the largest extant adobe
structures in the New World. It is the only building remaining from the
Hohokam culture that farmed the Gila and Salt River valleys ca.
1000-1100 AD. At the height of their culture, the Casa Grande was the
centerpiece of a Hohokam city of an estimated 10,000 people. Aerial
photographs of the region around the Casa Grande reveal the town and
structural sites, and the irrigation canals, of this early Arizona − more
geographically proper: "Northern Sonora" − culture.
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Links to other sections of the Chapter's information
- Return to the Chapter's Homepage
- Go to the album of photos from the March 2003 trip to the Tumacacori Mission
- Go to the album of photos taken during the Chapter's March 2004 Board Meeting
This page modified on: 25 March 2004