There are a lot of awesome landmarks in Downtown Tucson, but at the corner of Church Ave. and Washington St. is The Presidio San Agustin Del Tucson. This 1800’s style fort is built to replicate part of the original fort, which is where Tucson started.
This Friday, at the Presidio, they are hosting ‘Friday at the Fort,’ an experimental educational program. The program is being done for fourth graders as social studies state standards for the grade focus on Arizona history.
The day will consist of sending students through eight stations teaching: cow roping, butter churning, tortilla making, soldiering, and other daily living skills. The idea is to use on the hands-on exercise to give students an idea of what life was like in Spanish Colonial Tucson.
The President of the Tucson Presidio Trust told me, he hopes this goes well and they can start to do it four times a year. This first event will be for the fourth graders of Carrillo Elementary School.
As a local Tucsonan, I remember we used to go on field trips to Tubac and Tumacacori to learn abut Arizona history, but the Presidio wasn’t opened yet. They had their grand opening in May 2007. I think it is pretty neat that kids will now get to go to where Tucson first started to learn about Arizona history. It puts more of a local angle on it.
Click here to watch Presidio Soldiers fire the cannon!
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