Rio Verde, Arizona

History

The area surrounding the Rio Verde community, northeast of downtown Scottsdale, was settled by small farmers in the 1880s, who grew hay and alfalfa to provide for nearby Fort McDowell,l a US Army camp (1865–1890) (now the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation). In the late 1890s, Frank Asher and William W. Moore acquired several of the small farm plots on the Verde River, combining them into what became the Box Bar Ranch; Moore later bought out Asher's interest. After his death in 1929, Moore's sons, Glen and Lin Moore, operated the Box Bar as a partnership, under the name "Moore Bros Cattle Co.", with grazing leases both east and west of the Verde River. Lin Moore also ran the X2 Ranch, known as "Moore's Well", 12 miles (19 km) to the west, where he and his wife, Ada Lucille, had homesteaded in the 1920s. William Moore's father, Ransom B. Moore, emigrated to Arizona from California in 1883 and ranched for many years on the Reno Ranch, west of the community of Punkin Center in Gila County. Ransom Moore, the founder of what is now Banning, California also was Gila County's delegate to the 16th Arizona Territorial Legislative Assembly in 1891.

From the History section of Rio Verde, Arizona on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.