History of Phoenix Arizona, The Early Years in Paradise Valley 1890 to 1950

Paradise Valley was once expected to become the agricultural rival of its neighbor the Salt River Valley. Paradise's long quest to irrigate using water from the Verde River shaped its early history and ended in an angry event where effigies were hanged and burned. Find the stories and learn about the people behind the intriguing early years of Paradise Valley, Arizona in this video by Ed Dobbins and John Augustine.

[@raceandros5079]

I am from one the first Hispanic families in Hayden's ferry ( Tempe) this is chock full awesome, thank you BRUH ❤️‍🔥

[@bg77782]

The first photo shows the McDowell Mountains, looking east. The last peak on the left is the one that has the huge radio tower today.

[@HT-vf7ok]

Wow, thanks for the history lesson of paradise valley. A harsh place in the early days.

[@123bigred]

I grew up in house on cave creek and cactus . 2424 e dahlia drive in the 90s. I was glued to this video. so cool to learn all of this.

[@mpoindex1]

Hey I recognize that voice 😄😄 Long time no see! My stepdad Kevin said this video popped up on his suggested videos on RUclips and so he sent it to me! Hope you and the family are doing well! Looking forward to learning a thing or two about local history from you on here!
-Morgan Poindexter

[@pequalsa]

Nice video! I didn't know about the pre 20th century settlement attempts. Thanks for the work putting it together.

[@JonGabriel]

Great info, Ed. Thank you. I grew up on 34th St., north of Cactus, and didn't know any of this info.

[@davidfarnsworth2901]

Very interesting, I’ve studied much of the history of the SRVWUA and didn’t know this about PV.

[@williamdamron7816]

Wonderful video! I love learning about stuff like this!

[@movingforwardfco1587]

Awsome so excited to learn some history of the valley.

[@howardbarrett9131]

Born and raised here. I'm 70. Road my horses across Greenway and Bell Roads when they were dirt. Parents had a 5-acre place on 27th St just north of Greenway. It was nice then. It's not so nice now. I remember the Post Office of Cactus.

[@Lizerator]

Thanks for this. Very interesting.

[@Lizerator]

2nd comment - thanks so much for the effort you put into this video. I live in this area and have always wondered about what came before all of these suburbs!

[@seanbrogdon9174]

Great video.
I was thinking a history of Shaw butte and info. about Cloud 9 would make a great video.

[@dianehickman5960]

Thank you

[@oobee2006able]

My grandparents lived in Paradise Valley. They lived on corner 30th st, and eberly lane

[@MegaMeco2]

2:21 I didn’t see or hear “effigies “ and was like “Damn talk about the wild wild west 😂

[@davidkreitzer4401]

I live in PV. They just built a 5 million dollar home two doors north of me. Twice the average price of my neighborhood.

[@samantha42042]

Its funny that it was called paradise valley when it was deselate waistland

[@ronwade5646]

Gila City then, not Phoenix

[@cesarcueto1995]

You sound like Ed O'Neil the dad from married with children

[@matthewmagnuson3329]

Govenor benjamin moeur died of heart complications not hanging lol

[@michaelt.9372]

It was an effigy of them hanging. Not them actually being hanged.