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Central was first homesteaded by the Cluff family in 1880. The Cluffs extended the
Central Canal to their lands on the eastern side of Central. Later settlers extended the canal west and north. In 1883 construction began on a one-room white rock building to be used as a church meeting house and
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was organized and Joseph Cluff was ordained the first bishop. A new red brick church was built in 1885. It was the first regular meeting house built in this part of
Arizona and was also the first home of the LDS Academy from December 1890 to May 1891. A plaque east of Hwy 70 on Central Road
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school house. By 1884 twenty families, including Cluff, Norton, Shurtz, Bigler, and
Webster households resided in Central. In 1978 the streets were named after these early Mormon pioneers. In December 1883 the Central
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is the only public building in the settlement, in which there is also a small store and a post office. There are a number of fine and comfortable private residences, built mostly of brick and adobe."
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