" Broad Valley lying east Phoenix moutnains and west of McDowell Mountains. So named by Frank Conkey, Manager, Rio Verde Canal Co., 1899. "When the promoters of this Rio Verde canal project first saw this broad level valley in the early spring covered with flowers and the palo verdes in full blossom, they all said, 'this is Paradise Valley.'" They planned a ditch of 140 miles long with laterals and water to cover 250,000 acres. Failed because of financial troubles."
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Sites to See
An Historical survey of Paradise Valley Regional Park, Maricopa County, Arizona / made for the Maricopa County Parks & Recreation Department by the Arizona Historical Foundation.
XCMA 22.2:H 47 P 16
Phoenix general plan 1985-2000 collection, 1974-1987 [manuscript]
MS MSS 9
The Silver story : a history of Paradise Valley Country Club's first twenty-five years : March 7, 1953-March 7,1978.
HS2581 .S5x 1978
Newsclippings Land-Use-Planning Paradise-Valley
CE EPH NH-32
Ruby Etta Muldrow Collection, 1919-1921.
FM MSM-289
Movimento Artistico del Rio Salado: Festival de Las Artes, 1979.
ME CHI F-136/OV
Witt's Desert Home Sanitorium for Tuberculars, 1928.
CE EPH DTO-PARADISE VALLEY