San Jose del Cosmi

Pima County · At excavated site · location approximate

MISSION SAN JOSE DEL TUCSON Built between 1775 and 1780 by the Franciscans to serve as church and industrial arts school for Pima and Papago residents of the area. Also known as San Cosme del Tucson. Possibly the first church school in Arizona that taught useful arts as well as Chris- tianity.

Cast and erected in 1957 by Arizona Development Board, before this book went to press.

1958 text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people. The book proposed 100 markers for Arizona's highways and records 14 as cast when it went to press.

Arizona still marks its history under the same law: the State Historical Advisory Commission approves a marker, the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records certifies that its text is authentic and historically correct, and the Arizona Department of Transportation erects and maintains the markers on state highway right-of-way. Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Historical Markers in Arizona, Vols. I-II (Arizona Development Board, 1958), text by Bert Fireman

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