Molokan-Jumper Settlers in Arizona: 1910 to 1920
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series: Our lives in Arizona: a season of multicultural
memories, music and dance
Phoenix Museum of
History Park at 5th and Monroe. See maps below. Parking is $1 for 4 hours. Go to the Museum just outside the parking lot. Admission is $5 adults, $3.50; seniors and students with ID, $2.50; children 6-12; and free for kids under 6. Andy Conovaloff, with other Molokans, will present maps showing where the Molokans originated in Russia, how they got to America, and where they settled in early Arizona.
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 1912--First Arizona Molokans This photo was taken near Grand Avenue and Lateral 19 (now Bethany Home Road). The Molokans dug a ditch through the desert from their colony on 75th Avenue to this canal. The 3 men in straw hats on the far right took this photo to commemorate the head gate they installed along the canal to supply water to the new Molokan agricultural colony. (Click on picture to see very large group photo.) Note, among the Molokan men shown, the old Russian dress on some--long high collar shirt (kosavorotka) with rope belt (poyzd), and Russian cap--while others have already adapted American clothes -- overalls, cowboy hats, and suspenders.
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