History
SR 79 is the section of what was together U.S. Route 80 and U.S. Route 89 before both US routes were removed from southern Arizona in 1992.
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“Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.”
—Pierre Bayle (1647–1706)
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