CONTINENTAL

NAME: Continental COUNTY: Pima ROADS: 2WD LEGAL INFO: T18S, R13E CLIMATE: Mild winter, hot summer BEST TIME TO VISIT: Winter, fall, spring

COMMENTS: On the old Tucson-Nogales Highway near exit 63 off I-19. REMAINS: Unknown.

Continental was named for the Continental Rubber company which planted a guayule plantation here during WWI. The experiment failed but the company was able to get a post office here from 1917 to 1929.

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