Saguaro National Park timeline

  • 500 BCE

    Glycymeris bracelets were most intensively manufactured in the PreClassic period (500 to 1150 CE) at settlements

  • It was in 1920 that members of the Natural History Society of the University of Arizona first expressed interest in preserving a stand of the Wests most iconic plant species

  • in 1928 University president Homer L. Shantz, in his role as a plant scientist, took up the cause.

  • ignificant cultural feature that was created by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930

  • Camp Pima was occupied from 1933 to 1941.

  • in the last days of his presidency, Herbert Hoover signed a Proclamation establishing Saguaro National Monument in the nearly empty deser

  • Saguaro National Monument was born on the first of March, 1933.

  • Camp Pima is a Civilian Conservation Corps camp that operated from 1933 to 1941

  • Visitor Center opened in the 1950’s and important scientific research brought a fuller understanding of the saguaro life cycle by 1970

  • n early 2014 a mining claim was discovered in the Tucson Mountan District of Saguaro National Park.