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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26N5_phantom-ii_Quartzsite-AZ.html
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom was a multi-service aircraft, served as primary fighter with Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps during Vietnam era. Carrying a crew of two, Pilot and Weapon Systems Officer, it was capable of speeds in excess of Mach 2,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25WM_arizona-hotel_Oatman-AZ.html
You are standing on the site of what used to be the ARIZONA HOTEL. In 1915, it was one of seven hotels that existed in Oatman during the early years. The hotel had 45 rooms and numerous baths. It had concrete fire walls and two separate water main…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25WJ_oatman_Oatman-AZ.html
World War I was funded partially by the gold out of these mountains in 1912. Oatman boomed from 1910 to the 1920's. Upwards to 8,000 people lived here. Gold mines were closed about 1942. Mine's were needed to mine copper for World War II. Blue Rid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25WG_oatman-arizona_Oatman-AZ.html
Oatman was founded about 1908. By 1931, the area's mines had produced over 1.8 million ounces of gold. By the mid 1930's, the boom was over and in 1942 the last remaining mines were closed as nonessential to the war effort.
Burros first came to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25UJ_tucson_Tucson-AZ.html
Tucson, one of the oldest towns in the United States, was originally developed as a Hohokam Indian Village called Stook-zone, meaning water at the foot of black mountain.
Spanish settlers arrived in the Tucson area in 1776, and fought along sid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25FD_world-war-ii-memorial-park-a-war-memorial_Tucson-AZ.html
World War II Memorial Park
Dedicated to
The Men and Women Who Unselfishly
Served and Supported the
United States of America and its Allies
During World War II
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25FB_duppa-homestead_Phoenix-AZ.html
Darrell Duppa explored Arizona four years before coming here with Jack Swilling's party, pioneers whose irrigation canal first opened the Salt River Valley to farming in 1868. A well-traveled Englishman and a scholar of the classics, "Lord" Duppa …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2436_the-original-site-of-the-desert-mission_Phoenix-AZ.html
Born of the selfless and compassionate services of those individuals
who gave medical, spiritual and other assistance to the sick and needy
in the Sunnyslope area. After the turn of the century, the Desert Mission
grew to be the center of these…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23V8_taming-the-colorado_Willow-Beach-AZ.html
You are looking into Black Canyon and a narrow,
river-like portion of Lake Mohave. To your left, about 59
miles downstream, is Davis Dam. To your right, 11 miles
upstream, is Hoover Dam. The U.S. Government built
the dams to tame the periodic …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23V6_heroes-of-hoover_Boulder-City-AZ.html
The building of Hoover Dam was a ray of hope for a nation struggling
with hard times. Newsreel images of the high-scalers who worked the
canyon walls ignited public interest in the project.
"Scaling" is the process of removing loose…