Rancho Sahuarita
Rancho Sahuarita is the newest area under development. Located at the north edge of the town of Sahuarita (just north of Green Valley), this community will have approximately 6300 homes, recreational lake and playground areas. Several home builders have models under construction.

Tubac, AZ
Tubac was established in 1752 by Father Kino and is the second oldest European settlement west of the Mississippi. It has been home to seven flags and five cultures.
According to archeologists and anthropologists, people of many cultures have dwelt along the Santa Cruz River for perhaps 10,000 years. The Hohokam were probably here between 300 and 1400-1500 A.D. The Ootam (Pima and Papagos) arrived sometime in the 1500's. The Spanish arrived with Father Kino in 1691. The Mexicans took over with their independence in 1821, and only since 1853 has Tubac been part of the United States, thanks to the Gadsden Purchase. At the time of the Gadsden Purchase, Tubac was a ghost town of adobe ruins, but soon exploration and the discovery of ancient mines and minerals brought prospectors, mining companies, storekeepers, travelers and journalists to the boomtown of Tubac.

Tubac's claim to FIRSTS in Arizona includes being the first European settlement, having the first school, the first newspaper, the first Spanish land grant, and the state's first State Park.

Today Tubac boasts a sophisticated lifestyle, with culture events, historic reenactments and performances and studios, as well as a bird sanctuary and Spanish Colonial archaeological site.

TUBAC ...TODAY ...is an interesting art colony as well as a delightful and safe place in which to live. Clean, clear air ...Blue skies ...Open vistas ...Magnificent mountains ...A quiet world ...Quaint shops and restaurants ...Small-town ambiance ...Golfing, riding, exploring mountains and valleys.

TUBAC is located along I-19, is 40 miles south of Tucson and 24 miles north of Nogales. At an elevation of 3400 feet, Tubac enjoys mild winters and summers with cool evenings.

Nogales, Arizona
is located just 64 miles south of Tucson along the rapidly growing Nafta busines corridor and International border with Mexico

Nogales History/Historical Review 

The pass at Nogales (the walnut grove) Arizona and the valley heading north has for thousands of years served as a trading route & cultural 'mixing' area for various cultures on the continent.

Origins of the highway through Nogales are traced directly to an ancient foot trail.

1600-1700's as the dirt horse & wagon road as part of Spain's El Camino Real (The King's Highway)

1800's as the notorious 'Blood Highway' of the 1800's as bandits, desperados and Apache raiders attacked travelers at will.

In 1853 a former U.S. cavelry soldier, Pete Kitchen, who stood an erect 5'9" with steely blueish grey eyes, always wearing a wide Mexican Sombrero hat and serape, established a ranch & fortified stronghold five miles north of present day Nogales along fertile Portrero Creek.

Kitchen recruited a group of 28 Opata indians from Sonora Mexico to help build the structures, work the horses and cattle, and act as 'Kitchen's Army'

24 hours a day guards were posted on the roof tops,and numerous attacks & small battles occured at the site.

Eventually, Kitchen tired of the 'settled life' and sold his ranch. He and his two teenage sons became cattle brokers along the border. They were all killed during a local Apache indian attack in the 1880's, his wife Dona Rosa was the only survivor. She soon moved to Tucson and became a property investor.

Nogales was officially 'founded' in 1880 by Isaac & Jacob Isaacson as a trading post on the border.

In 1855 an official U.S. survey team from Washington D.C. passed through the area completing the survey and mapping of the official boundaries between the two countries agreed upon after the Mexico/U.S. War

1882 saw the United States & Mexico's railroads meet in Nogales as trade between the countries boomed.

The city of Nogales,Arizona was not actually incorporated until 1893.

When General Francisco Villa's army first attacked, seized the railroad,and occupied Nogales Mexico in 1914 during the Mexican Revolution, a worried U.S. Army quickly established Fort Steven D. Little in Nogales, Arizona.

During the course of Mexico's Revolution, the strategic town of Nogales Mexico was the scene of numerous attacks, takeovers, defeats by a succession of clashes between Mexico's Federal Army Troops & the 'Revolutionary Army of Northern Sonora'

The U.S. military's garrison in Nogales Arizona swelled to over 10,000 mostly black soldiers of the highly decorated 25th Regiment, a detachment of the First Separate Infantry of Washington D.C. With the enormus pressures of the 'Great Depression' and lack of mission in the area Fort Steven D. Little was closed in 1933.

The military buildup, and related business growth brought many tradesman like tailor Hyman Capin who would go on to found major Nogales businesses.

Ironically, throughout the Mexican Revolution both U.S. and European arms merchants supplied Villa's 'Army of Northern Sonora ' with ordinance materials they kept warehoused in Nogales and Tucson, Arizona.

Recently a treasure of some of the money used in these sales was discovered beneath the home of a Tucson businessman of that time.

To the present day Nogales remains as a busy expanding International commerce & cultural exchange center.