Here’s a good read for a cold, wet Sunday morning – it is here in sunny Tucson - about the founding and development of the Catalina Foothills Estates by John Murphey in the 1920’s.
From the Catalina Foothills Association web site;
In the 1920s, John Murphey, a young Tucson builder, began purchasing property north of River Road. Slowly accumulating land, Catalina Foothills Estates gradually took shape.
The development was for ten planned subdivisions, with large lots, often three acres or more. All lots were planned for maximum privacy, making utmost use of the existing desert vegetation and natural terrain and for the preservation of wildlife. In addition to other smaller purchases, in 1928 Murphey bought a 7,000-acre tract of land north of River Road between Oracle Road and Sabino Canyon in a federal land auction.
After the stock market crash the following year, Murphey sought to sell some of this land to an Arizona banker for $10 per acre. The banker refused the offer on the grounds that the land was “worthless.” continue reading > History of the Catalina Foothills Association
If you’re thinking about buying a home in the Catalina Foothills Estates there’s lots of useful information on the Catalina Foothills Association site
see thefoothillsToday.com
to find your Catalina Foothills home
