George Hirko,Southeast Valley Real Estate

The History of Gilbert  Gilbert started off as a train station. There was a small farming community located on the site of the present day town .  In 1902, the Arizona Eastern Railway was looking for donations of  right of way for a rail line between Florence and Phoenix, and a local farmer, William “Bobby” Gilbert, ...

History of the Phoenix Area-Early yearsIn a desert, there is little more precious than water. The early inhabitants of the area, theHohokam , were keenly aware of what an asset they had with the Salt River. At that time,without dams, the river flowed freely, although flow was heavier in the spring.The river, a tributary of the Gila River, which ...

  Phoenix was founded in 1867, when a man named Jack Swilling came to the area from Wickenburg. Swilling, an adventurer, gold prospector, and member of the "Gila Rangers" militia, saw the potential for agriculture in the abandoned Ho Ho Kam irrigation canals in the Salt River Valley.Many people had commented on the canals before, ...