A Brief History of Mesa, Arizona

Second Mesa Company

The Second Mesa Company, which came from Idaho in 1879, included the Phelps, Hibbert, Dana, and LeSueur (pronounced Le Sweer) families. In 1880 the Rogers, Standage, and Pew families came. Because the best land had been taken, the 1880 pioneers established Stringtown, along what is now Alma School Road.

The Standage Farm became the University of Arizona Experimental Farm on Main Street between Alma School and Dobson. The property stood undeveloped until the late 1990's when a Wal-Mart Shopping Center and the East Valley Institute of Technology were built on the site.