Presidio San Ignacio de Tubac

Personal Observations I visited Tubac a few minutes after I visited Mission Tumacácori in 2009, my one long trip to Arizona. We spent about two hours examining the ruins and exhibits. As on of the labels says, the original building are buried or gone, the current structures postdate the presidio. Enter an underground exhibit to see parts of the actual buildings.

Mission Art & Photo-Art

Address and Directions

Photography Gallery

Entance to the Historic Park.

Adobe House.

Adobe House.

The arrastra is a simple mining machine, powered by mules or oxen. Bolders were dragged over silver ore to crush it. After the soldiers left the Presidio, it was used for a time by a mining company.

Cart.

Teofilo Otero was instrumental in building Otero Hall in 1914. Dances, weddings, and other social events were held in the building. The Otero family obtained the first Spanish land grant in the area. Later it was used as part of the school.

Otero Hall.

Rojas House.

Rojas House.

Rojas House, interior.

Rojas House, interior.

Rojas House, interior.

Print Shop.

Museum exterior.

Museum interior.

Museum interior.

Museum interior, exhibits.

Museum interior.

Loom.

Ruins of a building.

Ruins of a building.

The underground exhibit shows the footings and portions of the House of the Captain.

The underground exhibit.

Schoolhouse, c188501960. A one-room schoolhouse built of adobe. There were sometimes as many as 50 students taught primarily in Spanish.

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