Eagar Townsite Historic District
Roughly bounded by Central Ave., Main St., 1st Ave. and Eagar St., 2nd Ave and Harless St., 3rd Ave. and Eagar St., Eagar, AZThe town of Eagar as represented in the Eagar Townsite Historic District is an excellent example of typical settlement patterns of Mormons in Arizona in the late 1800s and their continued prosperity in these settlements. Further, the district illustrates the pattern of growth and development in Eagar and the strategies which allowed the community to survive difficult times. The district is significant under Criterion A in the area of Community Planning and Development for its relationship to the patterns of development and settlement of Mormon towns in Eastern Arizona.
The settlement and development of Eagar can be conveniently divided into five periods. The first period, from 1870 to 1888, encompasses the beginnings of the Mormon colonization movement in northern and eastern Arizona to the establishment of the community of Eagar. The second period includes the initial development effort in establishing a thriving town. The third period, 1910-1925, includes the years of greatest growth and the maturation of the community. It ends with the fourth period, when an agricultural depression, the Great Depression, and then World War II conspired to suspend growth in the well-established town. The last period, the modern period, includes the remarkable, indeed exponential, growth that the town has seen since 1945.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
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