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    OUT ON THE TOWN

    Sep 24, 2019 3 minutes
    BY LINDA WOMMACK

    he pioneer spirit is quite literally at home in Phoenix. For a half-century the Pioneer Living History Museum [] has showcased structures recalling the heyday of Arizona Territory (1863–1912). The brainchild of the Pioneer Arizona Foundation—a group founded in 1958 and whose members included Senators Barry Goldwater and Carl Hayden and former Governor Paul Fannin—the museum is also known as Pioneer Village. It centers on various historic buildings the group saved from demolition and had moved from Flagstaff, Globe, Prescott,

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