Keegan Field is an amateur sports field located in Yuma, Arizona, United States. The 4‐acre athletic facility contains a softball field with lights for night games and is part of the larger 32-acre Kennedy Park Athletic Complex. It was named in honor of Frances Keegan, a local supporter of amateur athletics.
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Arizona City or Arizona is the name of the original settlement at the Yuma Crossing, in what is now Yuma, Arizona, United States.
From 1853 a small settlement, Arizona City, grew up on the high ground across from Fort Yuma, first as the adobe residence of Mrs. Bowman the fort's mess cook. This was purchased for use as a store the next year by George F. Hooper. On the mail route with the arrival of the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line in 1857, and the Butterfield Overland Mail in 1858, the town received its post office of Arizona with its first postmaster John Blake Dow March 17, 1858. At that time it consisted of adobe dwellings, two stores and two saloons.
Originally part of Doña Ana County, New Mexico Territory, on February 1, 1860, Arizona City became part of Arizona County, New Mexico Territory. Arizona County comprised all the land of the Gadsden Purchase west of a line close to the current New Mexico – Arizona border, with its seat at Tubac, later Tucson from July 8, 1861.
Arizona City was damaged and downriver rivals Colorado City and Jaeger City were destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862. Colorado City was rebuilt on higher ground and became part of Arizona City. Jaeger City was abandoned, its remaining inhabitants and the ferry moved upriver to become part of Arizona City. With the end of the Butterfield route through New Mexico Territory in March 1861, and Apache hostilities, mail ceased to be delivered except by military courier and the Arizona post office was discontinued June 8, 1863. Its second and last postmaster from July 7, 1858, Landsford Warren Hastings, later in the American Civil War proposed a plan for the Confederacy to recapture Arizona as part of a campaign to cause a rising of Southerners in California to take California from the Union. Hastings, after the Civil War, attempted to colonize Brazil with former Confederates.
The town post office was restored with the return of mail service on October 1, 1866, but with the name of Yuma. On October 28, 1869, it was renamed Arizona City. By 1870, the population of Arizona City had risen to 1,144. In 1871, it became the county seat of Yuma County, replacing La Paz. Finally both the post office and city took the name Yuma on April 14, 1873.
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Vista Alternative High School is an alternative high school in Yuma, Arizona, Arizona, United States. It opened in 1991 and is part of the Yuma Union High School District. The school mascot is the Lobo.
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Onvida Heath, formerly known as Yuma Regional Medical Center, is a hospital in Yuma, Arizona, United States. It began operations in 1958 under the name Parkview Hospital.
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Kofa High School is a high school in Yuma, Arizona. It is one of seven high schools part of the Yuma Union High School District.
It was the second high school to be established in the community. The school shares its name with the Kofa Mountains, which were named for the King of Arizona gold mine, discovered in King Valley in 1896 and active from 1897 to 1910. The mine used to stamp its property "K of A", and is commonly known as the Kofa Mine. The school draws its mascot, the King, from the mine as well.
Designed in 1959 by the Phoenix architecture firm of Edward L. Varney Associates. It was built by D. O. Norton and Son Construction Co. also of Phoenix. Major renovations were completed on the ageing campus in 2019 designed by DLR Group Architects. As of 2023, Kofa High School is ranked No. 4 in Yuma County.
Liberty Military Housing of Marine Corps Air Station Yuma is assigned to this high school.
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The Ruth Ewing House is a historic concrete block cottage in Yuma, Arizona, with a hipped roof. It was built in 1906 for Ruth Ewing, a parishioner of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Ewing bequeathed the house to the church, and it was later purchased by Reverend R. W. Dixon. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 7, 1982.
Keegan Field was the first spring training home of the San Diego Padres in 1969 prior to their move in 1970 to Desert Sun Stadium.
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