Sahuaro Ranch preserves one of the Valley's oldest and finest homesteads.
Peacocks roam freely amid 17-acres of lush landscaped grounds, complete with seven original buildings and a lavish rose garden. Interpretive displays in the ranch buildings explain and illustrate the ranch's famous history. During the 1880s and 1890s, the orchards of Sahuaro Ranch were hailed as Central Arizona's finest, and newspaper photographs of this model fruit farm lured hundreds of pioneers to the Arizona Territory. White Adriatic figs, Le Conte pears, navel oranges, peaches, apricots and olives all flourished in the rich soil. A disastrous drought killed many of the trees in the final years of the 19th century, so William H. Bartlett experimented with cattle, grains and other crops until he sold Sahuaro Ranch in 1913 to P.E. Bradshaw, who planted cotton and grazed sheep there.