Saddlebrooke's hidden history
By W. T. “Flint” Carter
When the Motorola Executive Institute gave that area to the
University of Arizona for the BioSphere, an archeological survey dated
carvings, between 4-6,000 years old, overlooked miles of pre-historic
irrigation canals for farming.
 The
first documentation on the area - and of that particular mine - was in
1880 by Mrs. Kitt who started the state-funded Arizona Pioneer
Historical Society.
The story also mentions a lost city right in the mighty Cañada del Oro.
In 1911, below the BioSphere, George
Stone Wilson started the Linda Vista Guest Ranch, formerly called Rancho
Linda Vista. It was Arizona’s first guest ranch with two old adobe
houses.
One building is believed to be Mission Santa Catalina
of Jesuit origin. The property was acquired through back taxes from the
Samaniego family- whom the western ridge is named. It was the
Samaniego’s who started the Hispanic Rights Movement.
Continue reading the story of the beginning history of Saddlebrooke.
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