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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJB3_quartermaster-depot-water-reservoir_Yuma-AZ.html
A steam pump located at the edge of the river propelled muddy Colorado River water through pipes to an elevated holding tank constructed of local rock and mortar with a wood shingle roof to decrease evaporation. Sediment fell to the bottom of the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJB2_office-of-the-u-s-army-depot-quartermaster_Yuma-AZ.html
This adobe building was constructed in 1872 as an office for the Fort Yuma Quartermaster Depot. It replaced a room in a corner of the depot storehouses where, according to Captain J. G. C. Lee, Quartermaster, ". . .the noise of the arrivals and de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJB1_commanding-officers-quarters-kitchen_Yuma-AZ.html
In 1859, steamboat entrepreneur George Alonzo Johnson built a riverside home for his bride, Estefana Alvarado. Now known as the Commanding Officer's Quarters, the home is believed to be Arizona's oldest Anglo-built adobe building. In the devastati…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJAP_gandolfo-theater_Yuma-AZ.html
Built by John Gandolfo, this brick landmark served as a 635 seat theater and vaudeville house, a WW II USO canteen and was a center of community activity from 1917 to 1950. The third floor ballroom was destroyed by fire in 1925.
Dedicated Decem…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJAO_in-memory-of-senator-harold-c-giss_Yuma-AZ.html
Senator Giss was born February, 1906, in Minneapolis, Minn. and moved to Arizona in 1937. Being a concerned individual for Arizona's future, Senator Giss entered politics. He served as a member of the Arizona House of Representatives for two years…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJAN_yuma-city-hall_Yuma-AZ.html
Built in classic Spanish Colonial Revival style on high ground overlooking the Colorado River, it has served as the traditional seat of municipal government.
Dedicated December 1999, by the City of Yuma for the preservation of our heritage.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJAM_yuma-crossing-park_Yuma-AZ.html
Yuma Crossing, used since prehistoric times, played a significant part in the development of the West and continues to influence the affairs of the state and the nation. The Yuma City-County Bicentennial Commission in the spring of 1974 conceived …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJAD_e-f-sanguinetti-home_Yuma-AZ.html
Construction on this adobe home on Madison Avenue began in the 1870's. Pioneer merchant E, F. Sanguinetti purchased the two-room house with its lean-to kitchen in 1890. The building, gardens, and aviaries were developed by Sanguinetti who resided …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJAA_el-camino-del-diablo_Yuma-AZ.html
Early day route from Sonora to California over the path taken by Father Eusebio Kino in 1700 when he sought to discover if California was part of the American mainland the parched desert along this route has claimed hundreds of lives particularly …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEZW_u-s-army-of-the-west-mormon-battalion_Yuma-AZ.html
Longest Sustained March in U.S. Military History, 1846-1847.Between 1846 and 1848, the United States and Mexico went to war. One of the major directives of the United States during this war was to secure its western border and to occupy California…