In the 1920s, a visionary named George Cleveland Curtis arrived at the foot of Superstition Mountain, where the intersection of the Apache Trail and the Globe-Phoenix Highway stood. Struck by the untapped potential of the area, Curtis started a business in the desert, selling water and sandwiches to weary travelers passing through.
He arrived right as the realignment of the Mesa-Goldfield section of Apache Trail was finished, creating the official junction that would eventually become AJ. It was named Youngsberg Junction at the time, after Phoenix's former mayor, George Young, who had some mining interests in the area.
Upset that the mayor had named the junction after himself and determined to give the junction a name that reflected its character and allure, Curtis launched a passionate campaign to rename it. Inspired by the legendary Apache warriors of Superstition Mountain, he successfully rebranded the town as Apache Junction. It was his entrepreneurial spirit and unwavering belief in the area that laid the foundation for our thriving community today.
(History courtesy of Apache Junction Public Library.
He arrived right as the realignment of the Mesa-Goldfield section of Apache Trail was finished, creating the official junction that would eventually become AJ. It was named Youngsberg Junction at the time, after Phoenix's former mayor, George Young, who had some mining interests in the area.
Upset that the mayor had named the junction after himself and determined to give the junction a name that reflected its character and allure, Curtis launched a passionate campaign to rename it. Inspired by the legendary Apache warriors of Superstition Mountain, he successfully rebranded the town as Apache Junction. It was his entrepreneurial spirit and unwavering belief in the area that laid the foundation for our thriving community today.
(History courtesy of Apache Junction Public Library.
In the 1920s, a visionary named George Cleveland Curtis arrived at the foot of Superstition Mountain, where the intersection of the Apache Trail and the Globe-Phoenix Highway stood. Struck by the untapped potential of the area, Curtis started a business in the desert, selling water and sandwiches to weary travelers passing through.
He arrived right as the realignment of the Mesa-Goldfield section of Apache Trail was finished, creating the official junction that would eventually become AJ. It was named Youngsberg Junction at the time, after Phoenix's former mayor, George Young, who had some mining interests in the area.
Upset that the mayor had named the junction after himself and determined to give the junction a name that reflected its character and allure, Curtis launched a passionate campaign to rename it. Inspired by the legendary Apache warriors of Superstition Mountain, he successfully rebranded the town as Apache Junction. It was his entrepreneurial spirit and unwavering belief in the area that laid the foundation for our thriving community today.
(History courtesy of Apache Junction Public Library.
He arrived right as the realignment of the Mesa-Goldfield section of Apache Trail was finished, creating the official junction that would eventually become AJ. It was named Youngsberg Junction at the time, after Phoenix's former mayor, George Young, who had some mining interests in the area.
Upset that the mayor had named the junction after himself and determined to give the junction a name that reflected its character and allure, Curtis launched a passionate campaign to rename it. Inspired by the legendary Apache warriors of Superstition Mountain, he successfully rebranded the town as Apache Junction. It was his entrepreneurial spirit and unwavering belief in the area that laid the foundation for our thriving community today.
(History courtesy of Apache Junction Public Library.
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