Arizona Cotton Land
The land surrounding this cemetery represents the beginning of commercial cotton growing in Arizona.
In January 1917, during World War I, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company founded the Southwest Cotton Company to begin producing long-staple cotton for domestic and military use.
People came from across the United States and Mexico to start a new life in the cotton fields. Migrant workers and their labor laid the agricultural foundation of the East Valley.
Marker is on South Iowa Street 0.1 miles south of Fulton Ranch Blvd., on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
