Saturday, October 19, 2013

Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Coolidge, AZ

Casa Grande is an ancient building from the Hohokam Indians.  The building stood four stories high and 60 feet long with a platform mound filling the first floor.  It is the largest known structure of the Ancestral People of the Sonoran Desert.  It was built from caliche, a concrete-like mix of sand, clay, and limestone.  It took 3,000 tons to build the "Great House".  Very fascinating place!!!!

 
These cactus are BIG!!!
 
 
Great House



 
 Other structures

 
Ball Court
 
 
 
 
 

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