This page collects information about people with surname Adair who were known or believed to have lived in Navajo County, Arizona.
Notable Individuals
Notable Landmarks
Fool Hollow
The tiny town of Adair, Arizona has long since been covered by the lake, but it was Thomas Jefferson Adair (1848-1912) who was responsible for the name Fool Hollow. In 1885, Adair moved into the area with the intention of farming. The locals joked that only a fool would try and farm the place. The name stuck! Mormon settlement established in 1878 in what was then Apache County of Arizona Territory. This area became Navajo County on March 21, 1895. Arizona officially became a state February 14, 1912. Submitted by: Bob McKown [1]
The only remnant left of the settlement is the Adair Cemetery off Old Linden Road. The weathered grave markers honor the deceased, some of whom lived only nine years, two years, one day. The names of their descendants now adorn street signs in Show Low.
There were 12 families in total who settled in the hollow in 1879 — all Mormon pioneers tasked with settling the area. For 25 years they eked out a living tending livestock and raising corn, sugar cane, beans and other vegetables, sustained by water that the settlers had to haul from the creek. The treeless, flat bottom of the hollow looked, at first, ideal for crops, but the settlers could not have known at the time that its soil was laced with sand and salt deposits. And the bowl-shaped topography invited early frost, deadly to crops. The name “Fool Hollow” seems now appropriate, and was coined for that very reason.[2]
Adair is now under Fool Hollows Lake it is located two miles north of US 60 off Highway 260 in Show Low, Arizona.
See Also
:Note, for the following tables, that there may be more than one county or district of this name and that some contributors may have entered a different (possibly shorter and/or ambiguous) name when this one was meant. Search for similar names to get a more complete result. Common abbreviations are "Co." and "Cty", but there may have been no word for "county" (or equivalent) included, or such a word may have been wrongly included.
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- See also Category:Married in Navajo County, Arizona
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References
- ^ Adair AZ Ghost towns of Arizona
- ^ The Ghost of Adair