Casa Grande, Arizona "Casa Grande"

Casa Grande .

Casa Grande, Arizona Historic Casa Grande Union High School which now serves as the Casa Grande City Hall.

Historic Casa Grande Union High School which now serves as the Casa Grande City Hall.

Casa Grande is positioned in the US Casa Grande - Casa Grande Casa Grande (O'odham: Wainom Wo:g) is a town/city in Pinal County, approximately halfway between Phoenix and Tucson in the U.S.

According to the 2010 census, the populace of the town/city is 48,571. It is titled after the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, which is actually positioned in Coolidge.

"Casa Grande" is Spanish for "big home".

Casa Grande was established in 1879 amid the Arizona quarrying boom, specifically due to the existence of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

In January 1880, the improve of Terminus, meaning "end-of-the-line," was established despite consisting of just five inhabitants and three buildings. In September 1880, barns executives retitled the settlement Casa Grande, after the Hohokam ruins at the close-by Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.

Casa Grande interval slowly, and suffered a several setbacks both in 1886 and 1893, when fires ravaged the town, destroying all wooden housing structures inside it. When the quarrying boom slowed in the 1890s, the town was nearly abandoned, but with the advent of agriculture, the town remained alive and well, and was eventually incorporated in 1915. One of the beginning fathers of Casa Grande was Thompson Rodney Peart.

Peart Road, Peart Park, and the Peart Center, all of which are notable fixtures of Casa Grande, are titled after him.

Casa Grande was home to a collective farm society which was part of the New Deal.

According to historian David Leighton, amid World War II, from 1942 to 1945, a Japanese-American relocation camp was set up outside of Casa Grande, known as the Gila River War Relocation Center.

Casa Grande is home to Francisco Grande Hotel & Golf Resort, former spring training locale for the San Francisco Giants.

The first exhibition game was played in Casa Grande in 1961, with Willie Mays hitting a 375-foot (114 m) home run.

During the Cold War, Casa Grande was the locale of the Corona Satellite Calibration Targets.

Casa Grande has also played a prominent part in semi-pro and collegiate baseball.

The Casa Grande Cotton Kings, who were established in 1948, qualified to play in the National Baseball Congress World Series ten straight times by winning Arizona state championships in the 1940s and 1950s, and were reactivated in the 2000s.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Casa Grande has a total region of 48.2 square miles (125 km2), all of it land.

Casa Grande is in an dry desert climate.

The economy of Casa Grande was historically based on rural, agricultural industries such as cotton and dairy farms.

Over time, the town/city has turn into home to many Phoenix or Tucson urbanites who own homes in Casa Grande.

This trend has contributed to expansion in the service trade of Casa Grande.

Phase one of The Promenade at Casa Grande opened on November 16, 2007.

The Promenade at Casa Grande is an open-air outside mall, assembled on a 100-acre (0.40 km2) patch of desert, and contains nearly a million square feet.

On November 29, 2016, officials from the state and the Lucid Motors car business announced a $700 million manufacturing plant will be constructed in Casa Grande that will employ up to 2,000 workers by 2022. Casa Grande was also a candidate for Tesla's Gigafactory 1 in 2014. According to Casa Grande's 2014 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 1 Casa Grande Elementary School District 1,076 2 Banner Casa Grande Medical Center 900 6 City of Casa Grande 444 Casa Grande Valley Newspapers Inc.

The Casa Grande Public Library provides the standard services of access to reading materials, as well as some special services, including a volunteer reading club for elementary school, internet access, and a talking book program.

The Vista Grande Public Library, a branch of the Casa Grande Library System, opened in the summer of 2009. The Casa Grande Municipal Court is the judicial branch of Casa Grande City government and accepted 6,609 filings, conducted 2,486 arraignments and held 156 civil, criminal and jury trials in Fiscal Year 2006-2007. Casa Grande Middle School Casa Grande Union High School Casa Grande Innovations Academy the proposed Interstate 11 would begin in Casa Grande, AZ and end in Las Vegas, NV List of historic properties in Casa Grande, Arizonc "Casa Grande History", retrieved 2013-09-10 History - Casa Grande Cotton Kings, retrieved 2014-02-04 "July Weather for Casa Grande, AZ | Weather Underground".

"Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy to open $50 - M Casa Grande plant".

"Tesla rival Lucid Motors plans Casa Grande plant".

The factory will be assembled in Casa Grande, which happens to be one of the locations Gigafactory to produce battery packs for Tesla vehicles.

City of Casa Grande CAFR Casa Grande Community Services Department - Library, retrieved 2013-09-11 City of Casa Grande - City Court Archived March 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.

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