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Pueblo Alto, widely known as Hightown, began in the 1920s as a small farm worker settlement for Mexican and Mexican American farm workers. Hightown is located near the southeast corner of McClintock Road and Chandler Boulevard. One of the earliest families in Hightown was the Ortega family. Nellie Ortega was born in 1923, and her sister, Lucy, was born in 1931, both in Chandler. Their parents were Anastacio and Cornelia Ortega, who came from Zacatecas, Mexico and migrated to the United States in the year 1919. They settled in Hightown in the year 1924.
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