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Queen Creek Library
21802 S. Ellsworth Road
Queen Creek, AZ 85142

Phone: 602-652-3000

Hours:
Monday-Thursday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Friday-Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

 

Visit MCLDAZ.org to access official Queen Creek Library page.

 

Library Infographic

The library is located at the northwest corner of Ellsworth and Ocotillo road.

Free library cards are issued to Town of Queen Creek residents (regardless of county) and property owners in Maricopa County. Non-residents who live outside Maricopa County must pay a fee to obtain a card. For additional information, call the Maricopa County Library District at 602-652-3000.

Library History:

Completed in November 2008, The Queen Creek library was the first municipal building in Queen Creek designed and constructed with green building features and has been LEED Gold certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. The library was featured in the January 2009 edition of Cities Go Green magazine, a publication that focuses how local governments can become sustainable as quickly and effectively as possible.

The library was designed to provide a gathering place for people of all ages. It includes the Mary Lou Fulton Children's Center, Teen Oasis, general reading areas, public computers, study rooms, conference rooms and Town recreation programming space. The Town received a $1 million grant from Fulton Homes for the construction of design elements in the children’s and teen’s sections of the new library.

The library is a partnership between the Town of Queen Creek and the Maricopa County Library District. The Queen Creek branch library provides materials in all formats as well as adult and juvenile programming.

 

QC Library: San Tan Museum - Discovering Falcon Landing

Adults

Note: THIS SPECIAL FEATURED EVENT IS AT THE SAN TAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM, located at 20425 S Old Ellsworth Rd, Queen Creek, 85142.

The Luke Solar Project: Middle and Late Archaic Period Subsistence and Settlement in the Western Phoenix Basin

In 2009, Luke Air Force Base initiated a plan to build a 107-acre solar-power-array that would provide about 50 percent of the base’s power needs. The location of the solar-power-array on Luke Air Force Base contained several previously recorded archaeological sites. In 2010, Statistical Research, Inc. began testing and data recovery for the Luke Solar Project. The largest archaeological site excavated during this project became known as Falcon Landing. Excavations at Falcon Landing continued through April 2013, uncovering one of the largest Archaic sites known in southern Arizona. Falcon Landing includes over 3,000 features. The intensive Archaic occupation of Falcon Landing began around 3300 B.C. and was focused on a nearby seasonal marsh, or mesquite bosque. Archaic people visited this area during the summer months to gather and process mesquite and other wild seed-bearing plants. Although the intensity of occupation at Falcon Landing significantly declined beginning with the Hohokam pre-Classic period, the technology and methods for processing mesquite persisted over 5,000 years.

JOHN D. HALL is a Senior Project Director at Statistical Research, Inc., in Tucson. He has 20 years of experience as an archaeologist in the U.S. Southwest, with particular experience in prehistoric stone artifact technologies, landscape archaeology, settlement and subsistence systems and Archaic and Ceramic Period economic adaptations and material culture, as well as the transition to agriculture in the prehistoric U.S. Southwest.
Instructor:John D. Hall

Registration Required:NO

For information visit the Maricopa County Library District's Web site or call 602-652-3000.

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