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In the late eighteen hundreds and into the early twentieth century, the State of Arizona took a turn for a prosperous future. In the year 1891, a veterinary surgeon named Dr. Alexander John Chandler made a claim on a piece of land south of Phoenix. This land totaled eighty acres of untilled Sonoran Desert. By the early 20th century Dr. Chandler owned much of the Salt River Valley. In 1912, Dr. Chandler began to subdivide the land and on May 17, he sold nearly $50,000 dollars worth of land on that one day in his new Chandler Ranch. This new land became a mixture of urbanization and farming. It grew larger and became what is today Chandler, Arizona, named after Doctor Chandler himself.
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