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Money Magaine in 2006 named Avondale as the Top 10 Best Places to live. Avondale is located 18 miles west of Phoenix. Avondale prides itself as a wonderful community for people to live, work and play. As one of the are’s fastest growing communities, the city strives to provide open spaces and recreational amenities, and works to attract quality businesses and employers to the area. If you are looking for Avondale Real Estate to buy or sell, you can come to the right place.

A Little Bit of History

The story of Avondale is so closely allied with that of a place called Coldwater that the two must be treated simultaneously.

Avondale’s founding father, William “Billy” G. Moore, arrived in Arizona in the late 1860s, had a freight station on the west bank of Agua Fria River (Spanish for “Cold Water”) where he had a well with a clear, cold water. For both these reasons he called his place Coldwater, although many old-timers referred to it simply as Billy’s Moore’s. Billy’s place was near a ranch known as Avondale.

Just a mile west of Coldwater, the railroad established a station in the area. The new station on the Avondale ranch was called Litchfield, and around it a community took shape. Moore’s lost its importance as a freighting station so that the name Coldwater was gradually abandoned. It is unknown why the post office was not named Litchfield when it was re-established after a lapse of six years, but the name Avondale was used instead of Coldwater because of the post office rule that once-used post office names could not be re-instated.

In December 1946, the City of Avondale was incorporated. Each year, Avondale and its neighboring communities celebrate the area’s colorful past with a parade down Western Avenue, a fun filled carnival, burro races, a golf tournament and much more.

Today, Avondale is the home of Phoenix International Raceway, a famous auto racing facility. Millions of people visit Avondale every year to watch the NACAR Races.

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