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Location of Laveen in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Laveen /l vi n/ is an "urban village" inside the town/city of Phoenix in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, situated eight miles (13 km) southwest of Downtown Phoenix between South Mountain and the confluence of the Gila and Salt rivers. Parts of Laveen constitute an unincorporated improve in Maricopa County, while the remainder falls inside the town/city limits of Phoenix, constituting the city's "Laveen Village".
Laveen Village is split between District 7 and District 8, both notable as minority-majority districts for the city.
Although Laveen has been home to "pastoral alfalfa, cotton, and dairy farms" since the 1880s, housing and commercial developments have been increasingly urbanizing the area.
The Laveen region was first settled by farmers and dairymen in 1884.
The only bridged crossing was at Central Avenue, more than six miles (10 km) away. Because of its isolation, like the rest of south Phoenix early Laveen was autonomous of Phoenix and became mostly self-sufficient, supporting two general stores, a barbershop, repair garage, two pool halls, and a building for the Laveen Women's Club.
These businesses served as meaningful gathering places for the greater Laveen community, which includes undivided south Phoenix and the neighboring Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) Laveen and his family homesteaded an region encompassing all four corners of present-day 51st Avenue and Dobbins Road, where they also assembled the area's first general store the Laveen Store on the southeast corner.
Members of the Laveen family donated territory adjoining to their store for a school, which was assembled in 1913 and titled Laveen School. A second general store, the Del Monte Market, was assembled in 1908 at 27th Avenue and Dobbins Road and is considered the earliest still standing building in Laveen. Bureau of Reclamation noted the improve was called Laveen and had a populace of less than 25. In March 1918, Walter Laveen was appointed the area's first postmaster, operating the postal service in the back of his store. Laveen later served as Sheriff in Pinal County, Arizona. Armon Deconda "Dee" Cheatham succeeded Walter Laveen as postmaster, serving in the post for the next 30 years. Cheatham and his wife, Lula, were from Duncan, Arizona, where they had owned a dairy.
In 1919, the Cheathams sold their dairy and moved to Laveen along with Cheatham's brother, Shelton.
Dee and Shelton bought the general store from the Laveens, along with 40 acres (160,000 m2) of farm territory on the southeast corner of 51st Avenue and Dobbins Road.
Laveen Community Council bumper sticker South Mountains above Laveen George, Utah, onto rented territory in Laveen.
Laveen School had the area's only deep well, which also supplied the Laveen Store.
In a landmark water rights ruling involving a several Laveen residents, Bristor v.
Although many of the early pioneer were religious, including the Clevengers who were Mormons, through April 1939 various attempts by churches to set up a Sunday School in Laveen had failed.
However, that month members of the Central Baptist Church of Phoenix leased space in the Laveen School Auditorium, and their "mission" took hold and by 1943 interval into the Laveen Baptist Church. That year the church purchased territory for a permanent building on the northeast corner of 51st Avenue and Dobbins Road, athwart from the school. The church added a parsonage in 1948 and by the 1970s had a full-time pastor. Today Laveen supports seven churches and has an Islamic mosque under construction. The Laveen Cowbelles were women from Laveen ranching and dairy families who worked to promote the beef industry. Their parent group, the Arizona Cowbelles, was formed in Douglas, Arizona, in 1938 to "cement the good will and friendship among the wives and mothers of cattle men in Cochise County." They were initially a small-town service organization, putting together socials and picnics, but eventually period their mission to include promoting the industry's beef products.
In 1956 alone the Laveen Cowbelles affixed 138,000 stickers reading "Beef for Father's Day" to envelopes mailed by various banks and businesses, and in 1959, the statewide group had then-Governor Paul Fannin proclaim "Beef for Father's Day." The Cowbelles also gave members the ability to "communicate with one another about their collective identity". Their mascot was "an sizeable-bosomed, blonde caricature titled Lil' Dudette". Estrella Mountains from Laveen, January 2004.
In 1960, the non-profits and churches in Laveen formed the Laveen Community Council (LCC), which took over the barbecue and began channeling most of the proceeds to pay for lights on the baseball fields at Laveen School, although donations to the March of Dimes continued into the 1970s.
January 14, 1930: The "Toledo Family Bandits", two men and a woman whose recent criminal activeness involved gunning down a Pennsylvania state trooper and a Maricopa County sheriff, as well as kidnapping a Florence, Arizona deputy sheriff, were captured alive by a posse in the Estrella Mountains above Laveen after a "sharp gun fight". Walter E.
Laveen, by then serving as Pinal County Sheriff, "enlisted almost every able-bodied man" in the region to capture the trio, which had been the subject of a nationwide manhunt. After their capture the woman, Irene Schroeder, became the first woman executed by electrocution in Pennsylvania, and the fourth woman electrocuted in the United States. June 2002: The City of Phoenix took over the Laveen Fire Department, a step in the slow annexation of Laveen by the city. Roger Laveen, later propel Maricopa County Recorder, tore down the other pool hall.
And the Laveen Women's Club donated its building to the community, which moved it west of Laveen School.
"As evolution pressures increase throughout the valley and town/city leaders continue to focus on infill of properties near central Phoenix, the area's adjacency to downtown and access to the future South Mountain Loop will bring these pressures to bear on Laveen.
In 2000, a commercial home builder broke ground on "Arlington Estates", a large residentiary evolution in what, at the time, was a non-urban Laveen.
That expansion has been tempered, however, by improve activist groups, such as the LCC and two newer groups, "Laveen Citizens for Responsible Development" (LCRD) and "South Laveen Against High Density" (SLAHD).
For example, when Wal-Mart opened its Laveen locale in 2007 it looked "a little different than most other Wal-Marts.
Although official zoning recommendations for the region of Laveen falling inside the town/city of Phoenix come from the Laveen Planning Commission (LPC), the Phoenix City Council has historically taken the recommendations of both the commission and the LCRD into consideration when voting on zoning matters.
Zoning in both the county and town/city areas of Laveen is guided by a master plan called the Southwest Regional Growth Study. However, the freeway is back on track and will pass through most of Laveen at about 59th Avenue. As a result, there are plans for a new Laveen hospital, county-wide retail centers, and potential Spring Training expansion in 2011-2012.
Laveen supports two golf courses: the former Bougainvillea Golf Club (formerly private) which became a enhance course under new management in October 2012 and now known as Southern Ridge Golf Club, and the Aguila Golf Course (public).
The improve is served by the Laveen Elementary School District and [(Roosevelt Elementary School District)] (for both elementary and middle school students) and the Phoenix Union High School District.
In addition to the initial Laveen School, now a K-8 school titled Laveen Elementary, the improve supports seven other K-8 schools - Bernard Black, Cheatham Elementary, Desert Meadows, M.C.
Cash Elementary, Rogers Ranch, Trailside Point, and Vista del Sur (a traditional school that was titled the #1 Elementary School in the state of Arizona in 2012 by the Arizona Department of Education). Rogers Ranch Elementary, a seventh school in the precinct with a curriculum concentrated on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math "STEM"), opened in August 2012. There are two charter schools in Laveen and a private school in close-by Maricopa Village.
Laveen has two high schools (Fairfax High School and Cesar Chavez High School) and South Mountain Community College plans to build a ground at 59th Avenue and Vineyard Road.
Laveen is in Arizona's 7th Congressional District served by Representative Ruben Gallego, a Democrat.
Laveen is positioned near the confluence of the Salt and Gila Rivers, southwest of downtown Phoenix.
The region of Laveen contains approximately 48 square miles (120 km2) of largely undeveloped, agricultural property, as well as a several groups of residentiary housing developments.
After a several annexations from the mid-1990s to the present, a large portion of the improve lies inside the town/city limits of Phoenix and is designated by the town/city as Laveen Village (an urban village).
Laveen is entirely positioned inside the Sonoran Desert, an dry climate.
Historic buildings in Laveen Different view of the Laveen Village Welcoming Water Tower.
The Laveen School Auditorium listed in the National Register of Historic Places, reference #8800 - 1601.
The Laveen Post Office positioned in the corner of 51st and Dobbins Aves.
This is the positioned where the initial Laveen Village postal service was established in 1918.
He didn't tell anybody," says George Anderson, a board member of the Laveen Citizens for Responsible Development, established in 1999.
D e "The Cheatham Family of Laveen" (PDF).
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"Laveen Barbecue: Then and Now" (PDF).
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Payton, a farmer living near Laveen, ten miles (16 km) southwest of Phoenix, this afternoon killed his wife and 9-year-old daughter, probably killed his 5-year-old son, and then committed suicide.
Two men and a woman suspected of being the trio that shot and killed State Policeman Brady Paul and wounding another state trooper on the Butler-New Castle road, New Castle, on December 27, surrendered to a posse near LAVEEN, Arizona, last evening following a gun battle.
They were surrounded and captured by a posse in the mountain peaks near LAVEEN, Ariz., after they had barricaded themselves behind rocks on a small peak and fired upon the searchers.
Dec 27, 1998 NOTEWORTHY A fire that apparently began with a chimney lured destroyed the home of former Eagles linebacker Byron Evans in Laveen, Ariz., near Phoenix, on Christmas Day.
Sunn, a member of the Native American Maricopa Tribe, hailed from Laveen, Arizona, and served with the Scouts from January December 1944.[dead link] Laveen Community Council: 3.
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