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| Arizona (Coconino County), Grand Canyon — Trans-Canyon Telephone Line | | | Trans-Canyon Telephone Line,
built in 1935 by CCC workers,
maintained by Mountain Bell,
has been placed on the
National Register of
Historic Places
by the United States
Department of Interior. — Map (db m4484) | | Arizona (Coconino County), Williams — William Sherley Williams | | | Sculpture by B.R. Pettit
"Old Bill" was born January 3, 1787 in North Carolina.
He died March 24, 1849. In that 62 year life span he
did a heap of living, most of it in the wilderness. In
the late 1700's and early 1800's the mountain men
were trappers. In the quest of fine furs, these master
trappers shoved ever westward in the raw, new
frontier, braving untamed Indians, Grisslies and worse -
the cold relentless winters in the vast unexplored
mountain wilderness. Their's was a . . . — Map (db m26456) |
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