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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYET_giant-desert-figures_Blythe-CA.html
Times of origin and meaning of these giant figures, the largest 167 feet long, smallest 95 feet, remains a mystery. There are three figures, two of animals and a coiled serpent, and some interesting lines.
[Panel #1]Blythe IntagliosIn 1931, Geo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY85_390th-bomb-group-h_Blythe-CA.html
Blythe Army Air Base was constructed during 1942 to train heavy bomber crews.
127 officers and men recevied orders in February 1943, to form 4 squadrons of the 390th Bombardment Group (H).
The 390th B-17s joined the 8th Air Force in England …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY7C_blythe-intake_Blythe-CA.html
On July 17, 1877, Thomas Blythe, a San Francisco financier, filed the first legal claim for Colorado River water rights. Oliver Callaway planned a diversion dam and canal which opened in 1877 to irrigate the Palo Verde Valley. This made possible t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY77_wiley-well_Blythe-CA.html
A.P. Wiley, storekeeper and postmaster at Palo Verde, financed miners to prospect this area early in the1900s. He also financed the first well, approximately 9 miles southerly of here, it was used and maintained for years by prospectors and cattle…