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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM91_beale-wagon-road_Flagstaff-AZ.html
From 1857-60, Lt. Edward F. Beale and crew of 100 men completed the first federal highway in the southwest from Fort Smith, Ark. to Los Angeles, Calif. at a cost of $200,000. The wagon road was used extensively by immigrants en route to California…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM8Z_the-navajo-code-talkers_Flagstaff-AZ.html
The original thirty-two Code Talkers were organized to develop codes based on their native language which were used extensively during World War II. These and many other Native Americans served bravely throughout the Pacific and other combat zones…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM8V_walkway-of-flags_Flagstaff-AZ.html
Flags have been important to the history of Flagstaff. It was a pine tree used as a flag staff that gave the town its name when Old Glory was flown at a spring (that later became the site of Flagstaff) on the occasion of the nation's centennial&md…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM8U_methodist-episcopal-church_Flagstaff-AZ.html
Flagstaff's first congregation was formed by the Methodist in 1883 and they raised the first church five blocks east of here in 1887. In 1906 they moved here and constructed this Gothic style building of locally quarried red sandstone. The interio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM8T_church-of-the-nativity_Flagstaff-AZ.html
In 1888, at the insistence of a group of Catholic Laymen, The First Catholic Church in Flagstaff was built of brick on the south side of town. It was moved in 1911 to a temporary site just west of and across the street from the present permanent g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM8S_railroad-depot_Flagstaff-AZ.html
The facility was originally constructed in 1925-1926 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad as the passenger station for the Flagstaff stop. The City of Flagstaff acquired the building in 1992 using city of Flagstaff Bed, Board & Booze tax …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM8R_transcontinental-railroad-centennial_Flagstaff-AZ.html
In 1866 the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was formed to construct a railroad from Springfield, Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, a distance of 2,000 miles.
In the summer and fall of 1882 the railroad was directly responsible for the founding and d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM8P_logging-wheels_Flagstaff-AZ.html
Logging wheels were originally an integral part of the early lumber industry in Northern Arizona. Originally designed in 1870 by Silas Overpack, a Manistee, Michigan wheelwright, the wheels were used by a local farmer to help him clear his land. W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM8O_flagstaff_Flagstaff-AZ.html
Named for a pine tree stripped of its branches by a party of immigrants and used as a flagpole for a patriotic celebration on July 4, 1876. Nearby Antelope or Old Town Spring provided water and led to the establishment of a railroad construction c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM77_mcmillan-building_Flagstaff-AZ.html
Thomas F. McMillan (also spelled McMillon) was the father of Flagstaff. Born in Tennessee, he sought gold in California and raised sheep in Australia before moving to northern Arizona in 1876. Here he established a sheep ranch and farm just north …