Florence, Arizona

Pyramid Tomb of the Father of Arizona

inneresting pyramid in the location of geotus' first rally of '22

Charles Debrille Poston was known as "The Father of Arizona" because in the 1860s he'd successfully argued for the creation of the Arizona Territory. He was also a bit of a nut. Fascinated by Zoroastrianism, he wanted to build a temple to the sun atop a volcanic mound outside of Florence – but he ran out of money.

When Poston died, penniless, in 1902, he was buried in a pauper's grave in Phoenix. That didn't seem right to his friends. So in 1925 they built a 14-foot-tall masonry pyramid atop the desolate mound (now known as Poston Butte), dug up Poston, and reburied him in it, facing the rising sun. His reinterment was attended by a crowd of 1,500, including Arizona's governor.

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