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Identification:
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Preferred Structure Name:
| Pozo Nuevo Windmill
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Structure Number:
| HS06D
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Other Structure Name(s):
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Other Structure Name(s)
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| No records. |
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Park:
| Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
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Historic District:
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Historic District
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1.
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Gray Family Partnership
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Structure State:
| Arizona
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Structure County:
| Pima
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Region:
| Intermountain
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Cluster:
| Southwest
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Administrative Unit:
| Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
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LCS ID:
| 056724
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Historical Significance:
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National Register Status:
| Determined Eligible - SHPO
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National Register Date:
| 09/26/1995
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National Historic Landmark?:
| No
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Significance Level:
| Local
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Short Significance Description:
| The Pozo Nuevo Windmill, Organ Pipe NM, was determined eligible for the NR as contributing structure to potential district, local level, for Criteria A, Sonoran Desert Cattle Ranching; & B, assoc'n w/Robert Louis Gray, Sr. Period of significance,1919-1976.
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Long Significance Description:
| Part of Gray Family Partnership Historic District, and associated with Robert Louis Gray, Sr.,"the quintessential frontier cattleman" of the area.
The Windmill, erected c. 1951-55, is located at one of the fifteen ranches and line camps in the Gray family cattle business which dominated the lands of Organ Pipe National Monument for nearly 60 years. The Grays, Robert Louis, Sr., and sons Robert, Jr., Henry, and Jack, began the trend of buying up water rights, ranches and line camps in 1919. They utilized the open range via a trigger gate to lure their cattle to water in their corrals at round-up time and made do with the materials they had at hand since supplies were hard to come by. Period of significance,1919-1976 .
The Determination of Eligibility for the Pozo Nuevo Windmill was signed by the Arizona State Historic Preservation Officer on September 26, 1995.
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Construction Period:
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Construction Period:
| Historic
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Chronology:
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Physical Event
| Begin Year
| Begin Year AD/BC
| End Year
| End Year AD/BC
| Designer
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1.
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Built
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1951
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AD
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1955
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AD
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Gray, Henry
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Other
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Function and Use:
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Primary Historic Function:
| Irrigation Facility
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Primary Current Use:
| Abandoned/Unmaintained
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Structure Contains Museum Collections?:
| No
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Other Functions or Uses:
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Other Function(s) or Use(s)
| Historic or Current
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1.
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Livestock
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Historic
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Physical Description:
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Structure Type:
| Building
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Square Feet:
| 49
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Material(s):
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Structural Component(s)
| Material(s)
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1.
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Superstructure
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Metal
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Substructure
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Not Applicable
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Short Physical Description:
| Largely intact windmill on metal frame tower w/ 7' square base, set directly on the ground. Ladder intact. Set inside corral above new well capped w/ concrete. Some of the blades have fallen.
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