The Tolleson Museum celebrates local Indigenous history and art by featuring artifacts from the Hohokam Culture, a group of Ancestral O’odham, known for their extensive irrigation system, spanning between 1 and 1450 AD. A few of the highlights of the collection that are currently on display are a bone bracelet that shows a prehistoric repair, a large Salt Red Incurving Bowl and a Hohokam Gila Plain Effigy Jar that is in the form of a seed pod from a desert plant. A majority of the artifacts were donated in the 1970’s by two local collectors and with the help of the Tolleson Women’s Club, the collection has grown to what it is today.
Mayor Christina J. Walsh, an accomplished advocate for working people and a proud product of the City, is the City’s 54th mayor. Mayor Walsh was sworn in to serve a second term on January 1, 2018. Learn more about Mayor Walsh and read his blog.
The council is made up of four at-large councilors that represent the entire City, and nine district councilors that represent specific areas of the City.