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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZI_santa-fe-railroad_Chambers-AZ.html
Across the Puerco River, the tracks of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad stretch for miles to the east and to the west. With no landforms or forests to block your view, you can see very long trains from beginning to end. More than 60 train…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZH_meaning-of-place_Chambers-AZ.html
Puerco Pueblo means different things to different people. Visitors come here to learn about the past and make their own personal connections by walking within this ancient community. Artists have also found inspiration by spending time at this vil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZG_whispers-from-the-past_Chambers-AZ.html
For thousands of years, indigenous people have used rock faces as means of communication. Petroglyphs are images, symbols, or designs scratched, pecked, carved, or incised on the surface of rock. These features are like whispers from the past and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZE_a-canvas-for-ideas_Chambers-AZ.html
The dark coating on the boulder below you is desert varnish - a concentration of mineral, clay, and organic material that accumulates over time. Prehistoric artists created rock art by exposing the lighter material underneath. But what do these sy…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZC_summer-solstice-marker_Chambers-AZ.html
A solstice is an astronomical event that happens twice annually as the Sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, June 20th is usually the longest day of the year and is referred to as the summer solstice.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZB_life-in-the-village_Chambers-AZ.html
Did you notice where the trail passed over the faint outlines of the rooms? Over 100 rooms formed a one-story apartment complex surrounding a central plaza in the village. The building materials for the pueblo were blocks of native sandstone, shap…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZ5_village-on-the-rio-puerco_Chambers-AZ.html
The village on the Rio Puerco (Puerco Pueblo) is a prehistoric settlement built of shaped sandstone blocks by ancestral Puebloan people. It was inhabited between A.D. 1250 and 1380. At its peak the pueblo had over 100 rooms, with a possible popula…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AYX_pioneers-of-paleontology_Chambers-AZ.html
Petrified Forest is a laboratory where scientists study not only the fossil record, but the records of earlier discoveries by naturalists and paleontologists.
Interest in the area's fossils goes back to 1853, when a U.S. Army expedition discove…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO9L_at-navajo-springs_Chambers-AZ.html
December 29, 1863 Arizona's Territorial officials took the oath of office during a snowstorm. Governor John N. Goodwin and other officials arriving from the east by wagon train, took their oaths of office and raised the U.S. flag "to establish a g…