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    Papago Park (/ˈpæpəɡoʊ/) is a municipal park of the cities of Phoenix and Tempe, Arizona, United States. It has been designated as a Phoenix Point of Pride...
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  • Camp Papago Park was a prisoner of war (POW) facility located in Papago Park in the eastern part of Phoenix, Arizona, United States. It consisted of five...
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    Papago Park Military Reservation Papago Park Military Reservation (Arizona) Papago Park Military Reservation is a facility of the Arizona Army National...
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  • the Tohono Oʼodham people Papago (moth), a genus of geometer moths Papago Freeway, I-10 through Phoenix, Arizona Deck Park Tunnel, a tunnel in Arizona...
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    night of December 23, 1944, twenty-five Germans tunneled out of Camp Papago Park, near Phoenix, Arizona, and fled into the surrounding desert. Over the...
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    Hole-in-the-Rock is a natural geological formation in Papago Park, a municipal park of Phoenix and Tempe, Arizona. In 1892, Charles Poston named and claimed...
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    Priest Drive/Washington (also known as Papago Park Center) is a light rail station on Valley Metro Rail in Tempe, Arizona, United States. It is the tenth...
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    tribal government and most of the people have rejected the common exonym Papago since the 1980s. They call themselves Tohono Oʼodham, meaning "desert people"...
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    of a small white pyramid behind a fence at the top of a hill within Papago Park, Phoenix, Arizona, United States. George W. P. Hunt (Arizona's first...
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    Botanical Garden, Hole-in-the-Rock and Hunt's tomb are located in Papago Park. Papago Park was listed in the Phoenix Historic Property Register in October...
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    the state. Prisoner of war camps were operated at Camp Florence and Papago Park, and there was an internment camp to house Japanese-Americans, most of...
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    notable parks include Camelback Mountain, Encanto Park, Phoenix Mountains Preserve and Sunnyslope Mountain, also known as "S" Mountain. Papago Park in east...
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    1934. He was interred in a white pyramid set atop a hill in Phoenix's Papago Park. Hunt's two middle names are uncertain. His second name is alternatively...
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    Buttes and Bell Butte on the western edge of Tempe, and the buttes within Papago Park at northwest corner of Tempe. Elevation ranges from 1,140 feet (350 m)...
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    Phoenix Zoo (category Parks in Phoenix, Arizona)
    the Maytag family, and operates on 125 acres (51 ha) of land in the Papago Park area of Phoenix. It has been designated as a Phoenix Point of Pride....
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    Desert Botanical Garden is a 140-acre (57 ha) botanical garden located in Papago Park, at 1201 N. Galvin Parkway in Phoenix, central Arizona. Founded by the...
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    Petrified Forest National Park is a national park of the United States in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits...
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  • to WNBA star Breanna Stewart. The couple got engaged in May 2020 in Papago Park, Phoenix, AZ. On 6 July 2021 the couple married on the rooftop of Stewart’s...
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    Mainstream Publishers. ISBN 1-84018-904-5. "The Great Escape at Camp Papago Park: The Swastika Tattoo". Archived from the original on October 29, 2013...
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    National Park is a national park of the United States located in northwestern Arizona, the 15th site to have been named as a national park. The park's central...
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    Camp Pima Camp Papago Park See also American Theater Arizona World War II Army Airfields Bushmasters Castle Hot Springs Great Papago Escape Machita incident...
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    secret inside the Deck Park Tunnel". KPNX. Tegna. Retrieved 23 June 2017. "Phoenix Regional Standard Operating Procedures - Papago Tunnel Response" (PDF)...
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    that month. By late January 1944 Guggenberger had been moved to the Papago Park camp near Phoenix, Arizona. Guggenberger met with four other U-boat commanders...
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    Helicopter), 285th Aviation Regiment 158th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade (Papago Park Military Reservation (PPMR)) 253rd Engineer Battalion Headquarters and...
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    And Buildings. National Park Service. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007...
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    at the intersection of Scottsdale and Thomas Roads in what today is Papago Park. In 1950, the town continued to grow as Motorola became the first of...
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  • Numerous other named buttes, mesas, and "temples" Hole-in-the-Rock, Papago Park, Phoenix LeChee Rock Monument Valley Camel Butte Cly Butte Elephant Butte...
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    Phoenix, Arizona. Ira H. Hayes High School, Bapchule, Arizona Ira Hayes Park (statue), Sacaton, Arizona. Marine Corps League, Ira Hayes Detachment 2,...
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    Litchfield Park, Arizona Manistee Ranch McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park Papago Park Phoenix Mountains Preserve Sahuaro Ranch San Tan Mountain Regional Park White...
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  • Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park is a state park near Yarnell, Arizona, created to memorialize the nineteen members of the Granite Mountain...
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