Chandler Republic Newspaper Articles

From 2014 to 2016, Museum Administrator Jody Crago wrote a weekly column on Chandler history in the local section of the Arizona Republic, the Chandler Republic. Explore all the stories here!

Week 1: Land Sales Day	Week 39: The 1914 Ostrich Drive and Rough Neck
Week 2: The Steam Dredge	Week 40: Spring Training in Chandler
Week 3: The Silicon Desert	Week 41: Clarence Baldwin Kidnapping
Week 4: Why Dr. Chandler came to Arizona	Week 42: E. W. Edwards
Week 5: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ocatilla Camp	Week 43: Dr. C. L. von Pohle
Week 6: Chandler and the Arizona Cotton Industry	Week 44: St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Week 7: Zora Folley Fights Muhammad Ali for the Heavyweight Title	Week 45: Arizona Republic 125 Years
Week 8: Eddie Wilson, Chandler’s First NFL Star	Week 46: Rosa Chandler
Week 9: Olive Goodykoontz: Change Agent	Week 47: La Hacienda
Week 10: Arizona’s Original Grass Golf Course	Week 48: Noel Addy
Week 11: Building the San Marcos Hotel	Week 49: Arthur Burnett Benton
Week 12: The Farm Security Administration in Chandler	Week 50: Chandler’s First Airport
Week 13: Hightown	Week 51: The Great Chandler Crime Spree of 1935
Week 14: Grace Perley Robinson	Week 52: Rinear & Montgomery
Week 15: Goodyear	Week 53: The San Marcos Summer Club
Week 16: The Chandler School District Beginnings	Week 54: The Evans School
Week 17: Bashas' Arizona’s Hometown Grocery Store	Week 55: Eulogio “Lefty” Soto
Week 18: George T. Peabody, Chamber of Commerce Founder	Week 56: The Suhwaro Hotel
Week 19: Julia Pope, Dr. Chandler’s First Wife	Week 57: Chandler Service Club
Week 20: Dr. Chandler and Land Fraud	Week 58: Frank Lloyd Wright and Lloyd Wright
Week 21: Corley Haggarton	Week 59: John Andersen
Week 22: Chuck Wagon History	Week 60: 1949 Chandler High School Football Team: Chandler’s First State Champions
Week 23: Fritz Werner: Portrait Painter at the San Marcos	Week 61: The 1946 Chandler Fire
Week 24: Harriet “Flip” Price and JFK	Week 62: Dr. Chandler: Turn of the Century Forrest Gump
Week 25: Tumbleweed Tree	Week 63: Serrano’s
Week 26: Williams Air Force Base	Week 64: 1916 Chandler Popularity Contest: Shop Local!
Week 27: Will Robinson	Week 65: McArthur Brothers Flying Squadron
Week 28: Charlotte Boyd Chandler	Week 66: Chandler’s 1913 Christmas Celebration
Week 29: The Acrojets	Week 67: El Verjel Cannery
Week 30: The McCullough-Price House	Week 68: Getting to the Bottom of Downtown Chandler’s Tunnels
Week 31: Irene “Animal Girl” Schroeder	Week 69: N. J. Harris
Week 32: Frank Lloyd Wright and Broadacre City	Week 70: Olympian Lyndsey Fry
Week 33: Walking the Sheep Trail	Week 71: J. M. Herman: The Bee Man
Week 34: Snaketown	Week 72: Carlos LaPaglia and the USS Indianapolis
Week 35: The Spanish Influenza Comes to Chandler	Week 73: Manny Valenzuela
Week 36: Jack Bogle and the China, Burma, India Theater in World War II	Week 74: Chandler’s First City Hall
Week 37: Ira Hayes	Week 75: Mayor Kenneth Thomas
Week 38: The Origins of the Ostrich Industry in Chandler	Week 76: International Museum Day