S. (Frenchy) Sawyer
At this site
in the Spring of 1868
S. (Frenchy) Sawyer
Built the first farm dwelling and harvested the first cultivated crop (barley) in the Anglo-American occupation of the Salt River Valley. These same fertile acres had been irrigated centuries before by Indians who later abandoned their canals and lands.
Marker can be reached from East Washington Street 0.1 miles east of South 24th Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
