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|  Harrisburg Cemetery
in Arizona Historical Markers In 1849, a group of pioneers heading for California were slaughtered by Indians. Several months later a party of gold seekers found their bones and buried them on the Harrisburg Cemetery knoll. posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 10/24/2011 last visited: never |
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|  Harrisburg
in Arizona Historical Markers Harrisburg may have been referred to as Orville and or Centennial. posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 6/15/2010 last visited: never |
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|  Salome
in Arizona Historical Markers According to Dick Wick Hall ~ Mrs. Salome Pratt took off her shoes and danced across the hot sand that burned her feet. Thus, the town became "Salome ~ where she danced ~ Arizona." posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 6/15/2010 last visited: never |
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|  Camp Bouse
in Arizona Historical Markers Monument Row in Bouse Arizona is dedicated to the various battalions that trained at Camp Bouse. Camp Bouse was established in 1942 by Gen George Patton as one of the eleven bases of his "Desert Training Center". 9000 GI's were housed there. posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 5/19/2010 last visited: never |
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|  Bouse Homesite
in Arizona Historical Markers Bouse was founded in 1908 as a mining camp. The population was 615 at the 2000 census. posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 5/19/2010 last visited: never |
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|  Quinn Pass
in Arizona Historical Markers Thomas Quinn prospected in the Plomosa Range and lived north of the pass, in a cabin, that bears his name. posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 5/19/2010 last visited: never |
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|  Tyson's Well - Old Stage Station
in Arizona Historical Markers The original adobe stage station was built in 1866 by Charley Tyson at its present location. posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 5/21/2010 last visited: 3/11/2015 |
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|  Tyson's Well
in Arizona Historical Markers This marker has nothing whatsoever to do with the former World Heavyweight boxing Champion. posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 6/25/2011 last visited: 3/11/2015 |
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|  The Last Camp of Hi Jolly
in Arizona Historical Markers The camel atop the Pyramid symbolizes the legend of The Red Ghost that roamed the desert, terrorizing man and beast with what amounted to a corpse tied to his back. posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 5/19/2010 last visited: 3/11/2015 |
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|  Wickenburg Massacre
in Arizona Historical Markers On the morning of November 5th, 1871, a stagecoach carrying seven passengers and driver was ambushed eight miles west of Wickenburg while en- route to Culling’s Well, Ehrenburg and San Bernardino. This event led to the death of seven people. posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 5/25/2010 last visited: 8/24/2012 |
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|  Vulture Mine
in Arizona Historical Markers The Vulture Mine produced gold worth more than 200 million dollars. The mine sparked the development of Arizona and the city of Phoenix. posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 5/25/2010 last visited: 4/19/2009 |
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|  Garcia School - Wickenburg, AZ
in Arizona Historical Markers This red brick schoolhouse replaced the wooden school on this land donated by Dõn Ygnacio Garcia. It was restored and opened as a bank in 1984. posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 5/25/2010 last visited: 1/23/2012 |
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|  The Jail Tree
in Arizona Historical Markers The Old Jail Tree in Wickenburg is a 200 year old mesquite tree that Outlaws were chained to from 1863 to 1890. You can find it behind the Circle K at the corner of Tegner and Wickenburg Way. About 54 miles NW of Phoenix. posted by: Headstone Hunter 1 location: Arizona date approved: 8/16/2007 last visited: 4/12/2014 |
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|  Pioneer Cemetery
in Arizona Historical Markers Marker is on Ehrenberg Poston Highway north of Interstate 10. posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 6/15/2010 last visited: 2/11/2013 |
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|  Peeples Valley Pioneers Cemetery
in Arizona Historical Markers A terrific old pioneer cemetery (my third this week in AZ) just down from the Yarnell hill. posted by: unimoggers location: Arizona date approved: 1/8/2009 last visited: 3/19/2010 |
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|  Boeing B-50A The "Long Ranger"
in Arizona Historical Markers A memorial in Dateland, Arizona to honor the dozen U.S. Air Force personnel who died in a Boeing B-50A bomber crash near Hyder in 1950 posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 5/18/2010 last visited: 4/13/2011 |
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|  Hyder Divisional Camp-Horn Divisional Camp Desert Training Center
in Arizona Historical Markers This was the largest Army base in the world covering some 18,000 square miles. It stretched from the outskirts of Pomona, California eastward to within 50 miles of Phoenix, Arizona, southward to the suburbs of Yuma, Arizona and northward into Nevada. posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 5/18/2010 last visited: 4/13/2011 |
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|  Datelan Army Air Field
in Arizona Historical Markers The airfield was established on 1 January 1943 as a United States Army Air Forces training airfield, being under the command of the 3037th Army Air Force Base Unit, AAF Western Flying Training Command. posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 5/18/2010 last visited: 4/13/2011 |
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|  Big Sandy Valley
in Arizona Historical Markers An original Arizona Highway Department roadside marker along US 93 near Wikieup, Arizona. posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 5/24/2010 last visited: 8/2/2012 |
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|  British-American Friendship- Lake Havasu City, AZ
in Arizona Historical Markers The British-American Friendship Marker was presented to the community by Havasu Chapter in October of 1997. It was placed near the London Bridge in the English Village. posted by: Mountain_Wanderer location: Arizona date approved: 10/27/2008 last visited: 8/5/2014 |
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|  In Memory of Harold and Ethelind Woodhouse
in Arizona Historical Markers Harold and Ethelind Woodhouse, had come to the Mohawk Valley from Santa Ana, Calif., in a Model T truck in 1925, and at least one skeptic thought they were risk-taking: posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 5/18/2010 last visited: 5/8/2011 |
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|  GFWC Peoria Woman's Club
in Arizona Historical Markers The Peoria Woman’s Club House, erected in April 1919, became a center for community-wide activities. In May 1959 the Women’s Club gave the clubhouse to the City of Peoria where they meet free of rent. posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 5/28/2010 last visited: 1/31/2014 |
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|  Peoria Central School
in Arizona Historical Markers Peoria Central School was built in 1906; the two-room masonry schoolhouse featured hardwood floors and ample storage closets surrounded by trees to shade the horses and mules. posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 5/28/2010 last visited: 1/31/2014 |
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|  First Presbyterian Church of Peoria
in Arizona Historical Markers Dedicated in 1900, the church, built in the Gothic Revival style and located at 83rd and Madison, is the oldest continuously used Presbyterian church in Arizona. posted by: leadhiker location: Arizona date approved: 5/28/2010 last visited: 1/31/2014 |
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|  Morcomb's Service Station and House - Glendale AZ
in Arizona Historical Markers At the busy intersection of Grand Avenue and Myrtle Avenue, this historic site is a wonderful restored piece of Glendale history. posted by: Where's George location: Arizona date approved: 3/2/2014 last visited: never |
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