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Arizona Pioneers’ Home: A Place for the Old-Timers

by | Apr 20, 2018 | True West Blog

photograph arizona pioneers home circa 1912
The Arizona Pioneers’ Home was unique when it opened in 1911.  It was intended to care for old-timers who had no other place to go.  They had to have lived in Arizona for at least 35 years and be a minimum of 60 years old.  In 1916, a women’s wing was added. Residents were given $7.50 a month, which many spent on alcohol and tobacco.  Among the notables who called it home:


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