McFarland State Historic Park
McFarland State Historic Park
Location:Downtown Florence, at Main and Ruggles.
Facilities:Historic buildings, exhibits, picnic area, restrooms (é).
Activities:Interpretive programs; guided walking tours of Florence's downtown historic district.
Special Features:The park's building represents a transition between Sonoran andAnglo-American architecture with its wood-shingled pitched roof andtraditional adobe brick walls. During the 1800s the building was acourthouse and later a county hospital. Former governor Ernest W.McFarland purchased the building from the Pinal County HistoricalSociety in 1974 and donated it to the Arizona State Parks Board for ahistoric park. In 1982 an archives building was completed and nowhouses his papers.
Address:PO Box 109
Florence, AZ 85232
Phone:520-868-5216
Web: www.pr.state.az.us/Parks/parkhtml/mcfarland.html
Size: 2.5 acres. Elevation: 1,200 feet.
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