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Early Explorer Marker
Photographer: Denise Boose
Taken: December 9, 2016
Caption: Early Explorer Marker
Additional Description: 1869 John C. Summer Walter H. Powell C.Y. Bradley William R. Hawkins Andrew Hall 1872 A.H. Thompson F.S. Dellenbaugh John K. Hillers Stephen V. Jones W. Clement Powell Andrew J. Hattan Erected by the Congress of the United States to Major John Wesley Powell first explorer of the Grand Canyon who descended the river with his party in row-boats traversing the gorge beneath this point August 17 1869 and again September 1 1872.
Submitted: October 7, 2017, by Denise Boose of Tehachapi, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p400310
File Size: 1.279 Megabytes

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