2544 East Allen Road  Tucson, Arizona USA

​'Valley Of The Moon Children's Park'

Originally   Founded   With   A    Motto   "Kindness   Is   The   Real   Magic"   By   Mystic   George   Phar   Legler

The 'Valley Of The Moon Park' in Tucson Arizona
advertises itself as an enchanted
historic magical fairyland promoting kindness
and imagination to all who enter.
 
It began as the purchase of two and a half [2.5] acres
of undeveloped sandy scrub desert downward sloping land
of two [2] adjoining parcels on a dirt road in the Drakes Addition to the
City of Tucson by Mrs. Felix B. Legler on March 24, 1919
from Mr. W.B. & Mrs. M.V.F. Miller.



Mrs. Legler's husband George a visionary, mystic, dreamer,
and visionary after their separation agreement
began construction on the property in the 1920s.
 
The Valley Of The Moon Park had its official opening in 1932,
being added to in size with an additional land purchase of
adjoining land by George Phar Legler on January 16, 1935.

The childrens park became a unique concept visualized,
designed as it went along, mostly hand built by homeless
laborers passing through town suppiled with hot meals
sometimes a bed, a space on a floor,
or sleeping on the desert sand under the stars at night.
 
 At the 1932 opening George Phar Legler through his
'Valley Of The Moon Childrens Park' began offering 
a wide varieties of wonderous performances 
and shows including tours, magic shows,
various presentations, mystical séances,
scientific and metaphysical seminars,
theatrical staged and numerous other
unique performances, educational experiences,
along with various forms of both private and public
events for the those who visited there.

On October 10, 1945 George Phar Legler
donated/gifted the 'Valley Of The Moon Park' property
to the 'Valley Of The Moon Memorial Association'
 set up as a 501(c)3 nonprofit Arizona Corporation
George Phar Legler and legal advisors had formed
in Arizona that year in hopes of preserving the
Valley Of The Moon Park property and his goals
of "Fostering tolerance and brotherly love for all of humankind,
regardless of their race, creed, or their color."


Valley Of The Moon

Over almost four decades 'Valley Of The Moon Childrens Park'
became a focus of numerous news and magazine
publication articles locally and nation-wide,
including a 1953 four [4] full page feature in LIFE Magazine,


 
features in other national, regional, and local magazines,
along with at times some nationwide historical preservation interest
of private and governmental groups and efforts.
 
The 'Valley Of The Moon Park' a decades effort
 originally imagined, began, and operated
 as the visionary project of then
Tucson Arizona resident
George Phar Legler
along with the help
of his supporters
continued.


George Phar Legler
'The Wizard'
With One Of His
Favorite 'Actors'


2020s Valley Of The Moon.Com Publicity Photo

The Valley Of The Moon Park in Tucson Arizona is a 
reminder of the many efforts of its creator George Phar Legler,
to those homeless laborers and local citizens
that worked and donated the building materials
that make it all possible.

Please tell them the Tucson Museum sent you,

And be sure to ask them: "Where's George?"

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