Avondale, Arizona Real Estate

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Community Profile

The City of Avondale is ranked one of the fastest growing residential areas of Maricopa County, Arizona. With 60,000 current residents, Avondale has come a long way from its agricultural past.

Parks, recreation areas, picnic ramadas, and nature trails are found throughout the city. These amenities create a vital balance to the City's incredible growth in commercial and residential development.

Unique to Avondale are the three rivers that traverse the City - the Gila, Salt and Agua Fria Rivers. The convergence of these rivers within Avondale presents a unique opportunity to build an open space system around resources meant to convey flood waters.

Avondale also is home to Phoenix International Raceway, a world-class motor sports venue nestled in the foothills of the beautiful Estrella Mountains. Today, Avondale is a popular NASCAR destination, with two races each year. Every Spring and Fall, racing enthusiasts and race teams converge in Avondale, spending hundreds of millions of dollars in the Valley area. Attendance at PIR is equal to that of three Super Bowls and the figures are increasing each year!

Avondale's award winning Wetlands project, assures the City an adequate water supply for the next 100 years. Avondale is the first West Valley city to achieve this milestone.

History of Avondale – The Legend of Billy Moore

Avondale's founding father, William "Billy" G. Moore, arrived in Arizona in the late 1860s, settling near the Agua Fria (Spanish for "cold water") River around 1880. Legend has it that Moore was a member of the Quantrill gang of Civil War guerrillas led by Willard Clarke Quantrill. Moore, the gang's blacksmith, was banished by the governor of Missouri to the Arizona Territory in 1867 (he was later pardoned). He first took up residence near Kingman, before becoming the first settler to put roots into the desert land by the Agua Fria River.

Billy Moore called his settlement "Coldwater, Arizona" - apparently both for the river and for the water that flowed from a local spring. He served a brief stint as Justice of the Peace for the Agua Fria area. He bought land, established a stage stop on the Butterfield Stage Run, erected a saloon and a general store, and was even Postmaster of Coldwater from 1901 till 1905.

In the early 1900s, the Coldwater post office moved to a site near the nearby Avondale Ranch. By then, Billy Moore had lost his position as Postmaster, reportedly because he violated postal regulations, which prohibited the dispensing of alcohol from the same building that houses a post office.

The post office soon became known as Avondale, and the name Coldwater was discontinued.

In December 1946 the City of Avondale was incorporated. Each year, Avondale and its neighboring communities celebrate the area's colorful past with a parade down Western Avenue, a fun-filled carnival, burro races, a golf tournament and much more.

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