Portal:Arizona/Did you know
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- ...that the 30-mile (50-km) section of Interstate 15 in Arizona through the Virgin River Gorge was the most expensive section of rural freeway by mile?
- ...that after their success with the Detroit Copper Mining Company of Arizona, William E. Dodge, Jr. and his partners founded the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad?
- ...that Ádahooníłígíí was the first newspaper written entirely in Navajo?
- ...that during the Bisbee Deportation, Phelps Dodge Corporation executives seized control of the town's telegraph and telephones to prevent news of the kidnappings from being reported?
- ... that Arizona Territorial Governor Joseph Henry Kibbey preferred to be addressed by the title "judge"?
- ... that Charles Silent tried to resign from the Arizona Supreme Court almost immediately upon taking up the office?