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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIBJ_mesa-womans-club-house_Mesa-AZ.html
On March 9, 1917, fifty-three women, inspired by Margaret Wheeler Ross, past president, 1914-1916, of the General Federation of Women's Clubs of Arizona, chartered the "Woman's Club of Mesa". Since 1901, Federated Women's Clubs, an international o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIBH_arizonas-honeymoon-trail_Mesa-AZ.html
For nearly forty years, couples from Arizona settlements left their homes each fall after harvest and traveled 400 miles to St. George, Utah. Winding slowly through desert and steep canyons, crossing barren plateaus, and passing rivers and pools o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIBG_mesa_Mesa-AZ.html
Early in 1878 a hardy band of Mormon pioneers arrived on this mesa. With a straight edge and a spirit level they proved the feasibility of using the ancient Montezuma Canal to bring life-giving irrigation water from the Salt River to the desert sa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIBF_mesa-pioneer-monument_Mesa-AZ.html
This monument is dedicated to the founding men, women and children of Mesa whose efforts, with others of all races, religions and cultures, changed a harsh desert land into this vibrant city of today. When the first settlers came in 1877-78, th…
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Memorial toArizona Confederate Troops1861 - 1865United Daughters of the Confederacy1961"A Nation That Forgets its Past has no Future"
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI7A_arizonas-pioneer-women_Phoenix-AZ.html
Before 1875 hundreds of heroic women came to Arizona from the East and South. From this group came Arizona's first schoolteachers and the publisher of the first newspaper. In 1876 a group of pioneer women and their families came from the north,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI6D_the-arizona-korean-war-veterans-memorial_Phoenix-AZ.html
The Arizona Korean War Veterans Memorialis dedicated to those Arizona men and womenwho served during the Korean WarJune 25, 1950 - July 27, 1953***Arizona Korean War Veterans Memorial CommissionersMG Donald L. Owens, AZ ANG (Adjutant General of Ar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI40_in-memory-of-the-students-of-this-school-who-enlisted-in-the-army-and-navy-during-the-world-war_Phoenix-AZ.html
Killed in ActionLee Rainbow * Wallace AntoneHonor Roll:Charles Laws · Isaac Jese · Oliver Sneed · Wm. T. Moore · Joe McCarthy · Peter Moore · Charles Gougn · Seth Oldman · Harvier Adams &midd…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHTH_father-albert-braun-o-f-m_Phoenix-AZ.html
Father Albert was a young missionary and teacher to the Mescalero Apaches in New Mexico and other tribes in Arizona.Father Braun was an Army chaplain in World War I and World War II receiving the Purple Heart and two Silver Stars for his heroic se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHTA_navajo-code-talkers_Phoenix-AZ.html
"Were it not for the Navajos, the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima"Major Howard Connor, USMC 5th Marine Division Signal OfficerIn recognition of the Navajo Code Talkers who distinguished themselves in developing a Navajo language code - the…