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Photo, Print, Drawing Florida Work Station, 27000 South Florida Canyon, Green Valley, Pima County, AZ Coronado National Forest Florida Station

[ Data Pages from Survey HALS AZ-29  ]

About this Item

Title

  • Florida Work Station, 27000 South Florida Canyon, Green Valley, Pima County, AZ

Other Title

  • Coronado National Forest Florida Station

Names

  • Historic American Landscapes Survey, creator
  • Santa Rita Experimental Range (SRER)
  • Roosevelt, Theodore
  • McKinley, William
  • Santa Rita Forest Reserve
  • U.S. Forest Service
  • U.S. Civil Works Administration (CWA)
  • U.S. Department of the Interior
  • Pinchot, Gifford
  • Potter, Albert F.
  • Bureau of Plant Industry
  • University of Arizona, Agricultural Experiment Station
  • U.S. General Land Office (GLO)
  • Arizona State Land Department (ASLD)
  • Hill, Robert L.
  • McCleary, William
  • Walker, Mark
  • Culley, Matthew
  • Tohono O'Odham Nation
  • Western Apache
  • Chiricahua Apache
  • Hopi
  • Zuni
  • Pascua Yaqui
  • University of Arizona, sponsor
  • Chorover, Gina, faculty sponsor
  • Adolph, Alesha, historian
  • Alper, Bianca Finley, historian
  • Francis, Safia Ahmed, historian
  • Houghton, B. Blake, II, historian
  • Lenkin, Heather Henricks, historian
  • McDowell, Sarah, historian
  • Morrissey, Lauran, historian
  • Olson, Melanie, historian
  • Peña Pesqueira, Estefania, historian
  • Stevens, Christopher M., transmitter
  • Stranieri, Marcella, transmitter
  • McPartland, Mary, transmitter

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 2000

Headings

  • -  Civilian Conservation Corps
  • -  Works Progress Administration
  • -  mountains
  • -  desert gardens
  • -  mesquite
  • -  shrubs
  • -  grasses (plants)
  • -  research
  • -  research facilities
  • -  experimental stations and agricultural research
  • -  stone walls
  • -  roads
  • -  trails & paths
  • -  buildings
  • -  education
  • -  educational facilities
  • -  cattle
  • -  cattle industry
  • -  sheep industry
  • -  sheep
  • -  livestock
  • -  gasoline pumps
  • -  driveways
  • -  warehouses
  • -  water tanks
  • -  fences
  • -  cottages
  • -  gates
  • -  oak trees
  • -  offices
  • -  flagpoles
  • -  creeks
  • -  trees
  • -  parking lots
  • -  retaining walls
  • -  bunkhouses
  • -  classrooms
  • -  patios
  • -  olive trees
  • -  garages
  • -  picnic grounds
  • -  troughs
  • -  barbeque grills
  • -  stairways
  • -  public works
  • -  New Deal
  • -  Arizona--Pima County--Green Valley

Latitude / Longitude

  • 31.763078,-110.84607

Notes

  • -  Significance: Florida Work Station is significant as the administrative site of the Santa Rita Experimental Range (SRER), a roughly 80-square mile area of rangeland operated for over a century as an agricultural and ecological research laboratory. The SRER "...is widely recognized as the first established and oldest continuously operated experimental rangeland facility in the United States" (Price 1976 and McClaran 2003 cited in Gillespie 2015). The establishment of the SRER dates to 1902 and is inextricably linked to Proclamation 468, the second U.S. land protection proclamation enacted by executive order under President Theodore Roosevelt that set aside land for the development of the Santa Rita Forest Reserve. SRER is also intimately connected to the parallel establishment of the US Forest Service and the designation of national forests in Arizona (Boissoneault 2017; Farrell et al. 2009; Gillespie 2015). Joint interest in the long-term effects of 19th century cattle overgrazing and rangeland degradation in Arizona between the University of Arizona (UA), the federal government, and the territorial government in Arizona ultimately led to creation of the SRER (Gillespie 2015). The Florida Work Station is a complex of buildings and associated landscape features in Florida Canyon in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson, Arizona. The Station is located on Coronado National Forest land and is currently operated by the University of Arizona under a special use permit. The majority of the structures were built between 1923 and 1934 and continue to be used for research, administration, and housing for the SRER. The construction of the Florida Work Station began in 1922 with the erection of a structure intended for use as an office and dwelling for the range manager (Gillespie 2003, 2015; Farrell et al., 2009). Development of the site continued sporadically, with the majority of structures and landscape features built between 1923 and 1934. Construction of Florida Station took place under several Depression-era federal relief building programs, including the Civilian Works Administration (CWA), the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) (Gillespie 2003, 2015; Farrell et al. 2009). The station's association with the first federal research site to study rangeland ecology in the U.S. as well as its association with Depression-era relief programs contributes to the site's eligibility for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (Farrell et al. 2009; McDonald cited in Gillespie 2015). Further, the site is illustrative of "...Forest Service administrative site design principles of the second quarter of the twentieth century" (McDonald 1991 cited in Gillespie 2015 and Farrell et al. 2009) and documented as the "...largest Depression-era site on the Coronado National Forest" (Gillespie, 2003).
  • -  Survey number: HALS AZ-29
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1922-1934 Initial Construction

Medium

  • Data Page(s): 27

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HALS AZ-29

Source Collection

  • Historic American Landscapes Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

Control Number

  • az0717

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • pdf

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Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Historic American Landscapes Survey, Creator, Santa Rita Experimental Range, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, Santa Rita Forest Reserve, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Civil Works Administration, et al. Florida Work Station, 0 South Florida Canyon, Green Valley, Pima County, AZ. Pima County Green Valley Arizona, 2000. translateds by Stevens, Christopher M.Mitter, Stranieri, Marcellamitter, and Mcpartland, Marymitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/az0717/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Landscapes Survey, C., Santa Rita Experimental Range, Roosevelt, T., McKinley, W., Santa Rita Forest Reserve, U.S. Forest Service [...] PeñA Pesqueira, E. (2000) Florida Work Station, 0 South Florida Canyon, Green Valley, Pima County, AZ. Pima County Green Valley Arizona, 2000. Stevens, C. M. M., Stranieri, M. & McPartland, M., transs Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/az0717/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Landscapes Survey, Creator, et al. Florida Work Station, 0 South Florida Canyon, Green Valley, Pima County, AZ. trans by Stevens, Christopher M.Mitter, Stranieri, Marcellamitter, and Mcpartland, Marymitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/az0717/>.