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- Creators: Arizona. State Historic Preservation Office
- Member of: Arizona State and Local Government Documents Collection
In 1995, three state agencies: the State Historic Preservation Office, the Arizona State Museum, and Arizona State University; and one private museum, the Museum of Northern Arizona, signed a
memorandum of agreement that created the AZSITE Consortium, with the multi-year goal to computerize and share electronically archaeological and historical site files for the State of Arizona. In 2006, the Governor named the Consortium, and the original four founding agencies as the official decision making and planning body within Arizona’s Executive Branch for the AZSITE database and GIS inventory of Arizona’s historical and archaeological properties.
This guide will direct you to resources for researching a historical pace or person in Arizona. Categories include maps, photographs, architectural plans and drawings, local histories, mining records, newspapers, and more. The appendices include bibliographies of material culture sources and background resources as well as historical archaeology reports.
Arizona State Statutes direct state agencies to: preserve historic properties under their ownership or control; consider the use of historic properties for agency responsibilities; establish a program to locate, inventory, and nominate properties to the Arizona Register of Historic Places; insure that properties are not destroyed or substantially altered by state action or assistance; make appropriate documentation in accordance with State Historic Preservation Office standards if a property is destroyed or altered; and seek review and comment from the Office on agency plans. This report provides a summary of the performance of state agencies in compliance with these state statutes.