Arizona Cotton Land

The land surrounding this cemetery represents the beginning of commercial cotton growing in Arizona.<br><br> In January 1917, during World War I, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company founded the Southwest Cotton Company to begin producing long-staple cotton for domestic and military use.<br><br> People came from across the United States and Mexico to start a new life in the cotton fields. Migrant workers and their labor laid the agricultural foundation of the East Valley.