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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10OW_van-deren-ranch_Sedona-AZ.html
Lee Van Deren, cattleman, arrived to put his children in the new Sedona school opened in 1910. Ranching was a major part of Sedona's early economy. Round ups and cattle drives were a twice a year occurrence for ranchers when moving their herds fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10OV_orchards-1890-1970_Sedona-AZ.html
Fruit growing played a significant role in the early Sedona economy. Over time, settlers constructed ditches, flumes, pipelines, reservoirs, and water wheels to provide irrigation to their gardens and eventually to their larger orchards.
Apples…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWL3_williams-arizona_Williams-AZ.html
The area around what now is Williams, Arizona, was first explored by a Mountain Man who came to this area in 1876, William Shirley Williams, who was called "Old Bill".The town site was created by a cowboy named C.T. Rogers in 1879. Railroad worker…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWKZ_beale-wagon-road_Parks-AZ.html
In the summer of 1857 former Navy Lt. Edward F. Beale was chosen by the Buchanan Administration to develop a wagon road from Fort Defiance, New Mexico Territory (now Arizona) to the Colorado River along the 35th parallel. Secretary of War John B. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS5P_lees-ferry_Marble-Canyon-AZ.html
Because of long, deep canyons, Lees Ferry was the best crossing point along 500 miles (800 km) of the Colorado River.
In 1873, Mormon Church members opened a wagon road from Kanab, Utah, and built a ferryboat here. John D. Lee was the first fer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS5O_lee-ferry_Marble-Canyon-AZ.html
From 1872 to 1929principal route of travelacross the Colorado Riverto Utah Settlements First crossing made at the mouth of Paria Creek in 1864 by Jacob Hamblin. Regular ferry established by John Doyle Lee in 1872. Purchased by Latter-Day Saints Ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS5N_lees-ferry_Marble-Canyon-AZ.html
John D. Lee settled here in Dec. 1872 and established ferry service thirteen months later. After her husband's death, Warren M. Johnson ran the oar-driven ferry for Emma Lee, 1875 to 1879, when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints purch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRYO_two-spots_Flagstaff-AZ.html
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company purchased this Baldwin steam engine in 1917 for lumbering operations in and around Flagstaff, where the engine spent its entire working life. The City of Flagstaff purchased No. 25 in 1995.
Canvas water bags hu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRYM_flagstaffs-founding_Flagstaff-AZ.html
Flagstaff was a name on a map before the area had any significant population. The first permanent settler was Thomas F. McMillan who arrived sometime in 1876. On July 4, 1876, a party of emigrants traveling from Boston to California was camped at …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRYL_community_Flagstaff-AZ.html
This area seems quiet and lonely today - but not 800 years ago. This valley was used for farming and hunting by the people living in Citadel, Nalakihu, and other nearby pueblos, all inhabited at about the same time. (You can see the ruins of at le…