TODAY IN ARIZONA HISTORY On this date in 1918, the citizens of Mesa started a movement for separation from Maricopa County.
They wanted to form a new county taking in Chandler, Gilbert and Tempe.
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Any historians out there might want to fill-in some gaps in the official history, but latter-day pioneers sent on a mission from Utah to expand their Kingdom of Deseret here to establish the New Zion probably had other plans for these four cities: Mormonopoly.
Bad me. Just feelin' mischievous. Mebbe Valley Fever???
