Butler 4

South of Phoenix are the ruins of Casa Grande. Over seven hundred years old, they stand weather beaten and sun baked in the Sonoran Desert. Casa Grande was given it's name by Spanish Explorers that thought that it was a "great house". At it's peak it was a four story, eleven room structure. Proving that even the indigenous people of the southwest were not beyond keeping up with the Jones.

My hope is that in the far off future the ruins will erode away and only the NPS roof will remain and people will come from all over to see this strange roof in the middle of the desert.

This NP site was the first of four stamps in my NP passport book on this trip. It also marked the first stamp ever in the Western Region.