Honk if You Love Higley!

Welcome to the the Make Higley Historic! blogspot! Your definitive source of Higley happenings - past, present and future.

Anyone who knows Higley is aware that its boundaries and residents have been quite elusive the last 100 years. This page has been created to bring together fellow Higleans, Gilbillies, San Tan-ites, travelers and friends who all have something to say about the history of this unique place.

Higley needs your voice! If you are interested in authoring posts for this community blog, we'd love to hear from you and the site administrator will get you set up.


Please feel free to email any photos you would like to share to makehigleyhistoric@gmail.com and we will add them to the page. And if you know of any older folks who may not be technologically savvy or speak only Spanish, let us know and we can arrange an interview so their stories are recorded as well.

We look forward to hearing from many and hope you all check in weekly for updates and new posts about our history and our efforts for recognition. Thank you kindly for all of your support in making Higley's historic value known!

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Higley opens 10th school; more on horizon

The East Valley Tribune.com has published a new article by Hayley Ringle on 8/22 outlining the tremendous growth of the Higley Unified School District in its centennial year.

Higley opens 10th school; more on horizon 

*Fun Facts*

In the last 10 years, Higley Unified School District has opened nine new schools with 10,000 new students enrolled.

In 1910, the US Census Bureau recorded Arizona's population at 204,354. The current estimate was at 6.5 million in 2008.

The Town of Gilbert's 2009 Business Development plan states their population is at 215,000, having doubled every five years since 1980. (And to think this was roughly the population of Arizona as we approached statehood in 1912!)

In between all of these numbers, the "unofficial" town of
Higley may have been one of the only places in Arizona to have seen its population decline, but your Friendly Higley Historians couldn't be more grateful to see the ingenuity and resilience it took to make this home in the desert continuing on through our schools.

Congratulations
Higley Unified School District in rising to the challenges of such rapid change. We look forward to documenting your history during this year's centennial celebration and are excited to see what the next 100 years have in store!