How Tumacácori Became a Testament to Time: Unveiling Its Storied Past | Arizona

[@ahummerich2751]

Beautiful video! FYI, I think it’s pronounced Tubok.

[@CactusAtlas]

Thanks! I feel a bit foolish as my original inclination was to pronounce it as you say, then I looked up the wrong resources online which portray it as I said it in the video, and went against my instinct. I was wondering if there was some kind of regional pronunciation like we have with Prescott. Good example of how I tend to overthink things lol. Next time I’ll just ask the locals at a coffee shop. 😂

[@Starfish2145]

@@CactusAtlas Im a local ….people say it both ways

[@georgelord7643]

Great video. It brought back lots of memories. My family started in Arizona in 1916 when an Uncle came out as part of a cavalry unit to chase Poncho Villa near Nogales, Arizona. My Brother worked at Tumacacori in 1967-68 as a park ranger and later was in charge of Tubac when it was being excavated as part of an archilogical dig. We grew up living South of Tucson within a few miles of the San Xavier Mission. Our Father was a water well driller who worked in all of the rural areas of Southern Arizona. I worked the summer of 1961with him in the town of Carmen that adjoins Tumacacori. My Wife and I lived near Tubac on the old Nogales highway in the late 1960's. You might want to try visiting the Crickethead Inn on Picture Rocks road outside Tucson. It resembles the one you stayed at in Tubac. The proprietor can tell you all of the stories of the area from first hand experience.

[@user-xp4ft1ct3s]

I enjoyed your video. I read a book about the 1775 -1776 Anza Expedition from Tubac to Monterey, Ca. They had a rough time crossing the Mojave Desert. In 2004 I took a tour of the San Xavier del Bac Mission near Tucson. A good friend of mine lives at Green Valley, Az.

[@CactusAtlas]

Another book to add to our list. So many books, so little time. 😂😅

[@kathietee291]

Hello again from Tomball, TX! We love the history of the Tubac and Tumacacori area. While visiting Tumacacori a couple of years ago, a high school graduation ceremony (from Rio Rico, I think) was about to start in the courtyard area in front of the old mission church. So, people were everywhere until the service started and they all sat down on folding chairs. Then we were allowed to walk around the ceremony on the broad sidewalks! Glenn does an excellent job covering all the buildings, and highlighting the old adobe walls of the church. It’s such an amazing place, and it boggles the mind to think of life there in those days. Enjoyed this so much!

[@CactusAtlas]

Thank you so very much!! Wow, a graduation ceremony! What an amazing space for something like that! 😄

[@susanasalinas4273]

Tumacacori is absolutely beautiful and amazing!! The scenery is amazing too. Thank You for letting me come along. Hi Amy.

[@CactusAtlas]

It really is! The inside is humbling in some ways. 😄

[@keithmiller3422]

What a team you two are! Your focus on the traditional touristy aspects coupled with the historical relevance and then spiced up with excellent editing and musical composition from Amy makes this a most enjoyable escape from the pressures of today's hectic political landscape. I love Arizona and am excited to learn more about it from You and Yours.

[@CactusAtlas]

Really appreciate that! It means a lot to us. 😊

[@SwiftyTravels]

What an interesting location!?! I’ve never heard of this!! The birds out there sound incredible!! Great episode!!

[@CactusAtlas]

Those birds just wanted to let their presence be known. No complaining here! 😂

[@joywyse6996]

I have heard of Tubac but not Tumacacori National Historical Park. This is another absolutely beautiful National Park to visit in Arizona. I'm learning so much from your videos Glenn and Amy. Thanks so much.

[@CactusAtlas]

We agree! So glad you enjoyed it! 😊

[@Raptor-gd6sk]

Wow Thank you for showing us around these beautiful places, very peaceful town and that old mission was a great finding. I have been in Tucson a few time and I didn’t know about this place until today.. Thank you again

[@CactusAtlas]

Our pleasure! Thanks so much for watching! 😊

[@OpieDogie]

Nice coverage of our history here in Arizona. Most kind of brush over the Spanish/Mexican history. I knew of the history because I am a descendant of soldiers from all three of Arizona’s presidios.

[@CactusAtlas]

Oh wow! How interesting! We've sadly brushed past that side of history as well, but recently have become interested. It's one thing to read about it... another to see it. 😄

[@OpieDogie]

@@CactusAtlas if you are into hiking, take a hike to the Presidio Santa Cruz de Terrenate. I hear it is the best preserved presidio in North America. I have been there several times. They founded it in 1775 and it closed down and personel pulled in 1780. One of my ancestors was “muerto en batalla” by Apache warriors while under the command of Lt Tovar

[@user-hs6kv2il2q]

Thank you for this video. I did not know there were so many awesome places within a short drive of Phoenix. Also, enjoy learning the history of the area beyond the cowboy stories.

[@CactusAtlas]

Our pleasure! 😊

[@ChrisRoxDuhh]

Oct-March, 8am-12noon, there's a hikers shuttle for people who want to hike the Anza trail one way from one park to another. Got my hike for health pin from Tumacacoori that way. Also at Tumacacoori, they make fresh tortillas by hand in front the church and serve it up with homemade beans and salsa! Don't forget it! Super delish!

[@CactusAtlas]

Nice! Congrats! That's a pin we've been wanting to get for a while now. We just have to do it at a time when they're running and are staying overnight in the area as it might be a tight schedule if we started off from Phoenix. 😅 And fresh tortillas?? Yes, please.

[@debramaertens893]

Love the music in this one. The commentary is great too!

[@CactusAtlas]

Thanks! 😄

[@WillySmith-sd4em]

Fascinating tour. Thanks!

[@CactusAtlas]

Our pleasure! ☺️

[@fredfleming261]

Next time you should visit Canoa Ranch it's between Tucumcari and Tucson

[@alexanderstrauch5531]

I've been wanting to visit all of the Spanish Missions in Arizona and New Mexico, would love to see more of them

[@CactusAtlas]

We're definitely planning on visiting more in the future. 👍

[@5wheels521]

Thank you for sharing. I'd really love to visit ❤

[@CactusAtlas]

Any time! Hope you get an opportunity to! 😊

[@AlanDayley]

Well done video. Thank you.

[@CactusAtlas]

Thank you too! ☺️

[@lisapolanski9379]

I would really like to see these places. Thanks for showing these sites.

[@CactusAtlas]

Any time! It's our pleasure! ☺️

[@lauraslanesvanlifetravels]

Such a beautiful place, great job on this Glen! I love old missions, done 2 trips exploring them. Have you ever been to the really old huge one in Riverside called The Mission Inn? It's soooooo beautiful and kinda spooky to explore! When I went (also did a video on it) there had been a recent 'accident' in the area where the gigantic round staircase is and I didn't know at the time so it was kinda closed but not closed, you could still go in the area but no one was over there so it was very spooky, but I still went all the way down it...got some fantastic views and photos! If you ever get a chance I'd definitely check it out, it took me all day and i know I didn't get to explore the entire place, it's been turned into a hotel but it has quite the history!

[@CactusAtlas]

Seen a number of videos on that place. It's definitely bucket list worthy as far as hotels go. So beautiful, especially around the holidays. 👍

[@lauraslanesvanlifetravels]

@@CactusAtlas Yup, that's how I o.g. saw it, I was watching a YT video of it during Christmas...and by the end of January I was there! lol

[@lauraslanesvanlifetravels]

@@CactusAtlas oh...and the stair thing is called a Rotunda...I just remembered lol

[@MegFlanders-no7xm]

I live in Tubac and I really enjoyed your tour of my community. It is actually pronounced TuBack by the natives. You will also hear it pronounced Tubahk, perhaps both are correct. My understanding is that the name is derived from Native American language and not Spanish, so does not have the Spanish pronunciation. Living here, I should know for sure. Thank you for this wonderful video

[@CactusAtlas]

Thanks for the info! So curious that is seems to be pronounced both ways. 😅

[@gstiles7]

That mission is something...WOW! I'm a terrible Arizonian as what I know about that is everything you just learned me lol. Just consider me your padawan.

[@CactusAtlas]

lol. I learned you real good! I have been here over 20 years now and should know much more than I do. That said, I am sold on southern AZ and ready to become a rancher.

[@matthewevangelista6674]

My Great Great Grandfather, William Washington Wisdom, came out west in the early 1900's. True cowboys of the west. Working for a man who's last name was Pendelton, out of Texas on baca float ranch... long story short my family still owns Wisdom's cafe, 1500' FT north of the Tumacacori mission.

[@CactusAtlas]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing! 😄👍

[@richardbeee]

Been there. People who like spooks and ghost hunting need to check that place and the "White Dove" of the desert out. Really haunted places. After the Spaniards were chased out, the locals even shunned those places.

[@CactusAtlas]

Interesting! We're not really believers of hauntings but do still love some ghost stories. 👍

[@richardbeee]

@CactusAtlas it's been said and I've heard, the wails of the lost souls as they cry for freedom from their prison. Underneath it is a beehive of chambers. The Apache were going to use it as a staging area to fight off the split tongue white man, but they ended up fleeing for their lives.

[@user-vk7sn1ge5r]

Desbravadores espanhóis novo México um pouco de história muito bom.

[@DeborahFlorian-gy6lw]

Excellent video! The expressions on the faces of the statues in the museum are so evocative. What a trip through the very distant past. Incredible architecture. And i gotta wonder if the Pennington House is in liveable condition.....💫🌵🏜️⚡ 13:46

[@CactusAtlas]

I saw a video here on KZbin that shows the inside of the place. You just have to turn your head 90 degrees to watch but it's cool to see how things look inside. 😅

[@modestoca25]

Convento, convent/abbey for nuns ..

[@robertlyman9789]

My cats hear that noisy bird, and ran in here to investigate!

[@CactusAtlas]

Time to start a second channel - bird noises for cats. 😂

[@user-vk7sn1ge5r]

Alguém habita neste lugarr ? Não há ninguém 😮😮😮😅

[@buzzyobrien1626]

Tubac is very artsy and very pricey.

[@katsiduzynski488]

Yes, living here it's hard living in a town that caters to tourists. We do not shop at the Mexican souvenir stores or the galleries. Too costly. It's sad the average house here is over 500k. Nothing remotely affordable anymore.

[@shredward666]

The beast with Tubacs

[@robertlyman9789]

For $200/nite, they should have coffee!

[@roderichroby6236]

And a continental breakfast with cheese danish!

[@ReagenBannister]

The Inn provides dark, medium, light and decaf coffee as well as 3 different varieties of tea and a large complimentary snack basket full of sweet and salty items ❤. Each room also has soft water for showers and exceptional filtered water for drinking 😊

[@Starfish2145]

Those are ocotillo ribs …on the ceiling.

[@CactusAtlas]

Recognized them as we have ocotillo in our yard. Just couldn't think of the name of the ribs. 😅👍

[@bradbennett3353]

Hi Glen. How are you ?

[@user-vk7sn1ge5r]

Cidade fantasma😮

[@pennysaufley8974]

I’m sure the Natives knew how to live their better than the Spanish. It’s amazing that Ancient One’s ruins in the canyons are 800-1200 years old, but European ruins are in a state of decay that is just as bad. I’m sure they had a hard time listening to the Natives. It is hard to fill a glass that is already fill.

[@user-vk7sn1ge5r]

É Glenn esse lugarr deve ter muito fantasmas kkkkkkkk😅

[@CactusAtlas]

Well, a number of people have commented about it being haunted soooo.... 😅

[@Gail-ux2ly]

The church was built by enslaved Native Americans whom the Spanish forced into labor by horrific punishments. The Natives who survived the diseases brought by the Spanish died in droves from starvation and overwork.

[@lisapolanski9379]

The bull "Sublimis Deus" issued in 1537 forbid and outlawed enslavement or coercion of indigenous people in the New World, meaning North and South America. Not all native people participated in the missions. They were not forced or enslaved by the Spanish. The Yankee settlers who came west evicted indigenous people off their land. The British rounded up indigenous people on the east coast well into the 1700s. Not the Spanish after the decree of Sublimis Deus in 1537. The US Federal government corralled them onto reservations in the 1900s.

[@pennysaufley8974]

I’m sure the Natives knew how to live there better than the Spanish. It’s amazing that Ancient One’s ruins in the canyons are 800-1200 years old, but European ruins are in a state of decay that is just as bad. I’m sure they had a hard time listening to the Natives. It is hard to fill a glass that is already fill.

[@pennysaufley8974]

I think it’s a satellite church but not sure.