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Oct 15, 2024 · The city was founded in 1880 by a San Francisco merchant, Jacob Isaacson, and called Isaactown. Isaacson built a trading post there, and two years later the Southern Pacific Railroad laid a track there, making the first rail connection between the United States and Mexico.
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Nogales, city and port of entry, north-central Sonora estado...
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Nogales was at the beginning of the 1775–1776 Juan Bautista de Anza Expedition as it entered the present-day U.S. from New Spain, and the town is now on the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail. On the second floor of the 1904 Nogales Courthouse is a small room dedicated to the 1775–1776 Anza Expedition. [8]
Aug 26, 2019 · Nogales was unbearably hot in the summer of 1918, and tensions simmered between Mexican citizens on the Sonoran side of the border and their American neighbors on the Arizona side. Locals collectively referred to the divided communities as Ambos (or “both”) Nogales.
History. The independent Nogales Municipality, which included the town of Nogales, was established on July 11, 1884. [2] The Nogales Municipality covers an area of 1,675 km 2. Nogales was declared a city within the Municipality on January 1, 1920.
Nogales, city and port of entry, north-central Sonora estado (state), northern Mexico, contiguous with the U.S. city of Nogales, Santa Cruz county, Arizona. It is an important transportation hub and warehouse centre, especially for agricultural products from the irrigated farmlands of Sonora and Sinaloa destined for U.S. markets, and a ...
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The name Nogales comes from the Spanish word “walnut” and Walnut trees once grew abundantly in the mountain pass between the city of Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Mexico. Thousands of years ago, before European explorers ever dreamed of sailing across the Atlantic, Nogales was part of a migratory path and trade route much later called El ...
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Nogales, Arizona, (population 21,746) is a US-Mexico border community established in 1880 by Jacob and Isaac Isaacson, who built a trading post along the border. The name “Nogales” is derived from the Spanish word for “walnut” or “walnut tree.”
