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The Gadsden Purchase (Spanish: Venta de La Mesilla "La Mesilla sale") [2] is a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km 2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854.
Many types of antique signs were available for purchase in Fort Payne on Aug. 5, 2023, during the World's Largest Yard Sale. This year's event begins Aug. 1, with Gadsden as its southern starting ...
Gadsden, Arizona. / 32.55639°N 114.78111°W / 32.55639; -114.78111. Gadsden is a census-designated place (CDP) and colonia [ 4] in Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The population was 953 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Yuma Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Sources: 1910–2010 [ 1] The history of Arizona encompasses the Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Post-Archaic, Spanish, Mexican, and American periods. About 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, Paleo-Indians settled in what is now Arizona. A few thousand years ago, the Ancestral Puebloan, the Hohokam, the Mogollon and the Sinagua cultures inhabited the state.
Gadsden and Etowah County can soon expect an influx of vendors as the World's Longest Yard Sale kicks off Aug. 4-7. World's Longest Yard Sale returns Aug. 4; Gadsden, Etowah tourism will benefit ...
John Gadsden (brother) James Gadsden (May 15, 1788 – December 26, 1858) [ 1] was an American diplomat, soldier and businessman after whom the Gadsden Purchase is named, pertaining to land which the United States bought from Mexico, and which became the southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico. James Gadsden served as Adjutant General of ...
Shown is the area Mexico ceded to the United States in 1848, minus Texan claims. The Mexican Cession consisted of the present-day U.S. states of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, the western half of New Mexico, the western quarter of Colorado, and the southwest corner of Wyoming. The Mexican Cession ( Spanish: Cesión mexicana) is the ...
The Mexican Cession agreed with Mexico (white) and the Gadsden Purchase (brown). Part of the area marked as Gadsden Purchase near modern-day Mesilla, New Mexico, was disputed after the Treaty. In addition to the sale of land, the treaty also provided recognition of the Rio Grande as the boundary between the state of Texas and Mexico. [40]