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Escalante Crossing & Preserve at St David Springs

Kino
By the time Hispanic settlers arrived, the native population had become familiar with a

few elements of European culture, thanks to visitations from Jesuit missionaries
beginning with Father Eusebio Francisco Kino in 1691.

Primera Alta
The Pimería Alta, meaning 'Upper Pima Land', was an area of the 18th century Sonora
and Sinaloa Province in the Viceroyalty of New Spain that encompassed parts of what
are today southern Arizona. The area took its name from the Pima indigenous
people residing in the Sonoran Desert.

Fenn
The Fenn Family, a rich pioneer legacy, came from England in 1650 with the second
load of settlers brought by Lord Calvert to settle Maryland. Many eventually settled in
the St David Springs area. Farmers, experts at construction, wonderful neighbors and
true patriots.

Kartchner
The Kartchner family entered America in 1840 via Illinois. By 1910 there were 20
Kartchner families in Southern Arizona. They were farmers, teachers, doctors and
accountants. All were hard working and exceled in all their endeavors. Many farmed in
the San Pedro Valley and were shepherds of the land.

Tenen & Tufts
On a November Saturday in 1974, cavers Gary Tenen and Randy Tufts
found themselves at the edge of a sinkhole near the Whetstone Mountains of southern
Arizona. They discovered a narrow crack in the bottom of the sinkhole, following the
source of warm, moist air toward what ended up being more than 2.5 miles (4.0 km) of
pristine cave passages. Today this is known as Kartchner Caverns.

Artesian
In early 1894, settlers noticed a damp spot in one of their fields. They began hand-
digging, and 18 feet down uncovered an ancient stairway, leading to a clay pot with a
hole in the bottom. A tiny stream of water issued from the opening. At 276 feet, they
struck Artesian water. The well is still flowing today.

Goodman Casita
In 1877 St. David, Arizona, was little more than a stone fort surrounded by crops of
wheat and barley. Families, such as Goodman, worked extremely hard to build homes,
cultivate land and provide a living for themselves, in conditions that were often difficult,
to establish St. David.