Arizona is a right-to-work
state. The law states no person shall be denied the
opportunity to obtain or retain employment because of
non-membership in a labor organization.
The Arizona trout is found only in the Arizona.
Arizona leads the nation in copper production.
The amount of copper on the roof of the Capitol building is
equivalent to 4,800,000 pennies.
Arizona observes Mountain Standard Time on a year round
basis. The one exception is the Navajo Nation, located in
the northeast corner of the state, which observes the
daylight savings time change.
The battleship USS Arizona
was named in honor of the state. It was commissioned in
1913 and launched in 1915 from the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The Castilian and Burgundian flags of Spain, the Mexican
flag, the Confederate flag, and the flag of the United
States have all flown over the land area that has become
Arizona.
In 1926, the Southern Pacific Railroad connected Arizona
with the eastern states.
Bisbee, located in Tombstone Canyon, is known as the
Queen of the Copper Mines. During its mining history the
town was the largest city between Saint Louis and San
Francisco.
Once a rowdy copper mining town, Jerome's population
dwindled to as few as 50 people after the mines closed
in 1953.
The original London Bridge was shipped stone-by-stone
and reconstructed in Lake Havasu City.
Located in Fountain Hills is a fountain believed to be
the tallest in the world.
Four Corners is noted as the spot in the United States
where a person can stand in four states at the same
time.
Arizona, among all the states, has the largest
percentage of its land set aside and designated as
Indian lands.
The Hopi Indians of Arizona are noted for growing their
multicolored corn.
Grand Canyon's Flaming Gorge got its name for its
blazing red and orange colored, twelve-hundred-foot-high
walls.
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Grand Canyon's Disaster Falls was named to commemorate
the site of a previous explorer's wreck.
Grand Canyon's Marble Canyon got its name from its
thousand-foot-thick seam of marble and for its walls
eroded to a polished glass finish.
The world's largest solar telescope is located at Kitts
Peak National Observatory in the city of Sells.
At one time camels were used to transport goods across
Arizona.
Between the years 1692 and 1711 Father Eusebio Kino
focused on area missionary work. During the time many
grain and stock farms began.
A person from Arizona is called an Arizonan.
Phoenix originated in 1866 as a hay camp to supply Camp
McDowell.
Tombstone, Ruby, Gillette, and Gunsight are among the
ghost towns scattered throughout the state.
