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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SKO_little-colorado-river-bridge_Holbrook-AZ.html
Six hundred feet to the west of this location stood the original Little Colorado River Bridge. This steel truss bridge designed by the Arizona Highway Department stood at that location for 1928 to 1988. This landmark structure remained intact and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CUC_sandal-trail_Kayenta-AZ.html
Follow the easy one-mile (1.6 km) around-trip trail to a point overlooking Betakakin Ruin—multi-level cliff-village home to a community of 13th-century Anasazi farmers. On the way there and back, you'll be walking through pygmy forest&mda…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CUB_wagon_Kayenta-AZ.html
You can tell that his two-horse wagon has traveled many a mile over rough Navajo reservation roads. One of the many styles made around the turn of the century specifically for the Indian trade, and sold at trading posts. Horse drawn wagons are a r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CUA_sweathouse_Kayenta-AZ.html
This miniature forked-stick hogan without a smoke hole is actually a highly effective bath—an an ancient solution to the problem of keeping clean in a land where water is scarce. Here's how it works: Stones are heated in a fire, then roll…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CU9_dinosaur-footprint_Kayenta-AZ.html
Footprints of a small dinosaur that walked on his hind legs. About 180 million years ago, he left a lasting signature by walking through the mud. The print then filled with sediment, and both print and cast (upside-down here) eventually turned to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CU8_canyons-in-time_Kayenta-AZ.html
The maze of canyonlands stretching before you is the continuing work of millions of years of powerful and pervasive geological forces. Water scours and down-cuts channels in the soft sandstone plateau. The process is augmented by forces of fros…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CU7_upside-down-mountain_Kayenta-AZ.html
Hidden away in Tsegi Canyon's wilderness of bare rock, sand, and sparse vegetation are surprising pockets of luxuriant growth. Betatakin Canyon—home to a village of prehistoric cliff-dwellings farmers—is one of these oases. Fir Canyon,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CL0_stephen-tyng-mather_Holbrook-AZ.html
He laid the foundation of the National Park Service, defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to the good that he has done.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AU4_agate-house_Holbrook-AZ.html
This structure, called Agate House, is a partial reconstruction of an Indian pueblo built here almost ten centuries ago. Indians built dwelling walls like these of petrified wood sealed with mud mortar. Archeologists believe the original eight-roo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ATV_how-long-has-it-been_Waco-AZ.html
Full of hope in the spring of 1883 Sadie Richardson arrived at the townsite of Wilford with her husband and four other Mormon families. They built cabins and corrals for their cattle. They cleared the land and planted corn, potatoes, wheat, squ…
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