I LOVE ARIZONA!
By Jill Segrove
Why? Because Arizona is the only state where you can say "Chuckwalla" and get away with it. You can live in towns like "Christmas", or actually meet the Flintstones in Bedrock City.
However, the biggest reason I love Arizona is that it's landcape is forever etched into my mind. When Katherine L. Bates wrote the lyrics to America the Beautiful, she had to be standing in Arizona. There is no other place where you will find amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties, and fruited plains harvested together. Here are some other interesting things about the land that I love:
Four Corners Monument is the only place in the United States you can stand in four states at the same time - Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah.
Offically known as "The Grand Canyon State", Arizona became the 48th state on February 14, 1912 giving us the nickname "The Valentine State".
The world's largest solar telescope is located at Kitts Peak National Observatory in the city of Sells.
At one time camels were used to transport goods across Arizona. Today, it is illegal to hunt camels in Arizona.
A person who lives in Arizona is called an Arizonan.
The Arizona trout is found only in the Arizona.
The bola tie is the official state neckwear.
The amount of copper on the roof of the Capitol building is equivalent to 4,800,000 pennies.
Arizona finally completed the last section of Interstate 10 in 1990. You can now travel from Florida to California without having to access the back roads of Phoenix.
Arizona observes Mountain Standard Time on a year round basis. We never have to change our clocks.
The original London Bridge was shipped stone-by-stone and reconstructed in Lake Havasu City.
The Arizona tree frog is the state official amphibian. The frog is actually between three-quarter to two inches long.
Once the 4th largest city in the Arizona territory, the copper mining town of Jerome dwindled to as few as 50 people after the mines closed in 1953. It is now the largest ghost town in America.
Located in Fountain Hills is a fountain believed to be the tallest in the world.
Phoenix originated in 1866 as a hay camp to supply Camp McDowell.
Arizona leads the nation in copper production.
If you've been to school in Arizona, you'll know "the 5Cs" or Arizona "Commodities" : Climate, Copper, Citrus, Cotton and Cattle.
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