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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRYO_two-spots_Flagstaff-AZ.html
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company purchased this Baldwin steam engine in 1917 for lumbering operations in and around Flagstaff, where the engine spent its entire working life. The City of Flagstaff purchased No. 25 in 1995.
Canvas water bags hu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRYM_flagstaffs-founding_Flagstaff-AZ.html
Flagstaff was a name on a map before the area had any significant population. The first permanent settler was Thomas F. McMillan who arrived sometime in 1876. On July 4, 1876, a party of emigrants traveling from Boston to California was camped at …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNIU_mormon-dairy_Flagstaff-AZ.html
Between 1876 and 1886, Hyrum Judd, under the direction of Lot Smith, supervised a Mormon Dairy one mile northeast near Dairy Spring.
Beginning with a herd of 115 cows, large quantities of butter and cheese were produced. During the 1880's the h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM9K_flagstaff-flag-raising_Flagstaff-AZ.html
Historians generally agree that Flagstaff derives its name from a flag-raising ceremony held July 4, 1876, by a group of settlers from New England who were camped within sight of this historic monument.
In February and May of 1876, two groups o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM9J_flagstaff-presbyterian-federated-community-mexican-methodist-mission-and-united-methodist-churches_Flagstaff-AZ.html
Flagstaff Presbyterian Church1892 - 1916Flagstaff Federated Community Church1916-1927Mexican Methodist Mission - El Divino RedentorUnited Methodist Church 1927-present
The First Presbyterian congregation of Flagstaff was organized in 1891 and b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM93_beale-road_Flagstaff-AZ.html
In 1857 Congress authorized Navy Lieutenant Edward F. Beale to survey a wagon road along the 35th parallel from Fort Defiance, New Mexico Territory, to the Colorado River. A secondary mission was to test the feasibility of using camels in the Sout…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM92_buffalo-park_Flagstaff-AZ.html
The City of Flagstaff purchased this land in 1959 from the United States Forest Service.
In 1964, James Potter, Sr., long-time resident, entrepreneur and Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce President, led the effort to form a non-profit organization,…
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…