Jesse Jefferson "Bear" Howard was one of the first settlers in Oak Creek in the 1880s, arriving there from California. Well known in the territory for hunting bears, Howard primarily sold the meat to merchants in Flagstaff and Williams. He hollowed . . . — — Map (db m263145) HM
Section crews were the laborers who built the railroads in the beginning and have continued throughout the years to maintain them. These crews were most efficient in moving heavy sections of rails when they all worked in unison. To accomplish . . . — — Map (db m178072) HM
On June 30, 1956, a TWA Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collided over the Grand Canyon. The 123 passengers and crew members aboard both aircraft perished.
This site is a common burial and memorial to 66 of the 70 TWA passengers and . . . — — Map (db m154949) HM
This 11-ton telescope, built by the Alvan Clark & Sons Telescope Manufacturing Company of Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, was installed at Lowell Observatory in 1909. It came with four secondary mirror combinations so that it could be operated at . . . — — Map (db m149451) HM
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Between 1100 and 1200, more people lived in this area than ever before, or since. Located along routes linking large populations to the northeast and south, villages here were well situated for trade. As people, goods, and ideas . . . — — Map (db m60079) HM
Box Canyon and Lomaki ruins are a short 15-minute walk from here, along the edges of ancient earthcracks. The 1/4-mile trail will take you back in time over 800 years to the remnants of this once-thriving community. You will see the few native . . . — — Map (db m60114) HM
A Village
You are entering the “Citadel,” a ruin from the late 1100s. Research has not been completed so it is important that we leave things as they are. Will there be extra storage spaces found, possible evidence for the . . . — — Map (db m60089) HM
Under the forebearer of this American Elm George Washington assumed command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 3, 1775.
This sprig of the "Washington Elm" was donated to the Arizona State Teachers College at . . . — — Map (db m263603) HM
The idea of a non-motorized trail
traversing Arizona from Mexico to Utah
was conceived by Dale Shewalter, a Flagstaff
public school teacher, after numerous
long-distance hikes throughout the state. In
1985 Dale walked from Nogales to . . . — — Map (db m121444) HM
Aubineau Building: The earliest buildings on this site were wood frame saloons, which burned in 1886 and 1888 and 1892. In 1892, ownership passed to Julius Aubineau, who later became Mayor of Flagstaff and is credited with installing the . . . — — Map (db m33267) HM
Because of its prime location, this corner, containing two lots, was one of the earliest in Flagstaff to be developed. Pioneer merchant J. R. Kilpatrick built New Town's sixth building here in December 1883. This wooden store building burned in the . . . — — Map (db m119945) HM
In 1888, David Babbitt, who had been running a lumber yard on this site, decided to construct a general store. Starting in late summer, he built a 35 X 70 foot structure on this corner, with the long side of the building running west along Aspen . . . — — Map (db m59504) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m33348) HM
From 1857-60, Lt. Edward F. Beale and a 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 . . . — — Map (db m33346) HM
The rich diversity of plants and animals of the Flagstaff area was first recognized in the summer of 1889 when Dr. C. Hart Merriam led a biological survey to the San Francisco Peaks. Merriam's "Life Zone Theory" detailed that temperature and . . . — — Map (db m201772) HM
The Box Canyon ruins are typical of many pueblos found in this region. Early inhabitants constructed walls of nearby sandstone and limestone, and used local soils to cement the stones together. The flat roofs were built of timbers laid side-by-side, . . . — — Map (db m60094) HM
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, . . . — — Map (db m33347) HM
Bushmaster Park is named in memory of Flagstaff's Company I-158th Infantry Regiment, Arizona National Guard, and their sacrifices for freedom made in New Guinea, the Phillipine Islands and Japan from 1941 to 1945.
"No greater fighting team ever . . . — — Map (db m60932) HM
In 1888, at the insistence of a group of Catholic
Laymen, The First Catholic Church in Flagstaff was built of brick on the south side of town. It was moved in 1911 to a temporary site just west of and across the street from the present permanent . . . — — Map (db m33336) HM
Understanding and predicting local weather patterns helps astronomers plan successful observing runs. Because of this, observatories such as Lowell typically maintain weather stations to monitor the conditions. One such station was set up at the . . . — — Map (db m149452) HM
The Hoxworth family was the first to develop this lot, when H. H. Hoxworth built a hardware and furniture store here in January 1884. The property was owned by his father, George Hoxworth, a wounded Union veteran of the Battle of Shiloh.
Like . . . — — Map (db m33268) HM
This area seems quiet and lonely today - but not 800 years ago. This valley was used for farming and hunting by the people living in Citadel, Nalakihu, and other nearby pueblos, all inhabited at about the same time. (You can see the ruins of at . . . — — Map (db m41716) HM
Plaza
An open area in the pueblo near the rim of the earthcrack is known as the plaza. In pueblos, the plaza was the center for many daily activities including grinding corn, making pottery, working obsidian into arrowheads, processing other . . . — — Map (db m60110) HM
This building for many years was the home of J. J. "Sandy" Donahue's famous Senate Saloon. After earlier frame buildings on the site had been destroyed by fire, Donahue built the present brick structure in 1888.
An important figure in . . . — — Map (db m33266) HM
The K.J. Nackard family came to Flagstaff in 1912 and opened a small general store at 106 E. Railroad Avenue. The store was successful. In 1921, Nackard built a home on this property, just a stone's throw from the store.
Soon afterwards, . . . — — Map (db m119932) HM
Volcanic activity to the south produced giant fissures or earthcracks throughout the Wupatki area in the Kaibab Limestone. This formation covers most of the western half of Wupatki National Monument. The Sinagua and Anasazi Indians who inhabited . . . — — Map (db m60098) HM
The Emerson School bell and concrete nameplate once graced Flagstaff's first permanent education institution, built by the city with a bond generated in an 1893 election. The following year, the Territorial Legislature encouraged school districts . . . — — Map (db m263147) HM
The City of Flagstaff City Council & Historic Sites Commission recognize this property for its Historic & Architectural Significance cited 1988 — — Map (db m157599) HM
Floods and People Chose the Rio's Course
For thousands of years, rain and snowmelt on the south-west slopes of the San Francisco Peaks flowed down the Rio de Flag drainage carving a shallow canyon where Bonito Street is located today. The . . . — — Map (db m263269) HM
Named for a pine tree stripped of its branches by a party of immigrants and used as a flagpole for a patriotic celebration on July 4, 1876. Nearby Antelope or Old Town Spring provided water and led to the establishment of a railroad construction . . . — — Map (db m33330) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m33365) HM
Flagstaff Presbyterian Church
1892 - 1916
Flagstaff Federated Community Church
1916-1927
Mexican Methodist Mission El Divino Redentor
United Methodist Church 1927-present
The First Presbyterian congregation of Flagstaff was . . . — — Map (db m33364) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m41717) HM
Original proprietors T.A. Riordan David Babbit Architect J. Kennedy Construction by Edivaros & Wiley Los Angeles National Registery of Historic Places Number FHR 107 — — Map (db m157598) HM
In northern Arizona, the history by the earth is revealed on a gigantic scale. Exposures of rock at the bottom of Grand Canyon reveal two episodes of mountain building, each separated by extensive erosion. These rocks, from two billion to 570 . . . — — Map (db m263751) HM
Another life-long employee of Lowell Observatory, Henry is best remembered for his Proper Motion Study of 1971, which entailed repeating the Pluto search plates after 25 years to determine whatever changes had taken place in the background of . . . — — Map (db m149456) HM
The United Nations' International Day of Peace is held annually on September 21 to encourage individuals, organizations, and governments to end conflict and promote peace within and among all peoples and nations. It is a global call for ceasefire . . . — — Map (db m263752) HM
Seen from here is the San Francisco Peaks Complex. Highest is Humphrey Peak, elevation 12,611'. The fourth highest is Aubineau Peak 11,800'. Nearby is Aubineau Springs, the original source for Flagstaff's first water system. Subsequent developments . . . — — Map (db m263142) HM
Logging wheels were originally an integral part of the early lumber industry in Northern Arizona. Originally designed in 1870 by Silas Overpack, a Manistee, Michigan wheelwright, the wheels were used by a local farmer to help him clear his land. . . . — — Map (db m33331) HM
Maker - Silas Overpack Wheelwright, Manslee, MI
c. 1900
Also known as Michigan High Wheels, Big Wheels, or Skid Wheels, these wheels were the workhouse of the forest. The large wheel here made it easy to transport logs over rough . . . — — Map (db m263150) HM
Lowell Observatory has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark Under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935 this site possesses exceptional value in commemorating or illustrating the History of The . . . — — Map (db m149455) HM
Thomas F. McMillan (also spelled McMillon) was the father of Flagstaff. Born in Tennessee, he sought gold in California and raised sheep in Australia before moving to northern Arizona in 1876. Here he established a sheep ranch and farm just north . . . — — Map (db m33271) HM
Flagstaff's first congregation was formed by the Methodists in 1883 and they raised the first church five blocks east of here in 1887. In 1906 they moved here and constructed this Gothic style building of locally quarried red sandstone. The . . . — — Map (db m178071) HM
Beneath the inverted, forked ponderosa entryway awaits an adventure in pioneer history, country-western legends and ghost stories - one of northern Arizona's liveliest landmarks since 1931.
Recognized by Hampton Hotels Save-A-Landmark . . . — — Map (db m192855) HM
Nalakihu - A modern Hopi name, "House Outside the Village"
Farmers lived here about 800 years ago. (Roof beams gave tree ring dates in the late 1100s.) The way the walls join show this small pueblo was not built all at once, but was added onto. . . . — — Map (db m41713) HM
The facility was originally constructed in 1925-1926 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad as the passenger station for the Flagstaff stop. The City of Flagstaff acquired the building in 1992 using city of Flagstaff Bed, Board & Booze tax . . . — — Map (db m78739) HM
As the keystone shows, this building was constructed in 1911. Its owner was R.O. Raymond, M.D., one of Flagstaffs first doctors. Raymond came west for his health. After a short stay in Williams, he moved to Flagstaff in 1906.
He was the . . . — — Map (db m59511) HM
The first building on this site was a wooden structure located at 22 N. San Francisco Street dating from the early 1890s. It was the home of a saloon with a cute name, The Office. (Honey I cant come home just yet, Im still at The Office.) . . . — — Map (db m59510) HM
This trail follows the south side of historic Route 66 from downtown Flagstaff to the east side of town. In the mid 1990s the City removed a series of Billboards from the strip or land between Route 66 and the BNSF railroad tracks, and replaced it . . . — — Map (db m263060) HM
For years, the only way to fight fire at the Observatory was with a soda acid fire extinguisher. This was a 30-gallon extinguisher on wheels that mixed water, soda and sulfuric acid (for pressure.) It was once used to save V.M. Slipher's house from . . . — — Map (db m263230) HM
The distant San Francisco Peaks would have looked much like they do today. To the east, however, Sunset Crater Volcano would still have been belching black smoke and cinders when the Sinagua and Anasazi lived here. The thick layer of cinders over . . . — — Map (db m60107) HM
This building was constructed in 1909 by John W. Weatherford, the man who earlier built the adjacent Weatherford Hotel. It was the headquarters for the Arizona Overland Telephone Company, housing its offices and physical plant.
Construction . . . — — Map (db m59966) HM
Ballcourts were common in southern Arizona from A.D. 750 to 1200, but relatively rare here in the northern part of the state. This suggests that the people of Wupatki intermingled with their southern Arizona neighbors - the Hohokam - who may have . . . — — Map (db m41696) HM
This blowhole - a crevice in the earth's crust that appears to breathe - is one of several found in the Wupatki area. It connects to an underground passage - size, depth, and complexity unknown - called an earthcrack. Earthcracks resulted from . . . — — Map (db m41701) HM
The Citadel
It was a remarkable achievement, to use primitive mortar and local stones to build the walls above you straight up from the edge of the top of the rock. “The Citadel” is the modern name given to this ruin because . . . — — Map (db m60087) HM
Historic Basque handball court (cancha) built in 1926 by Jesus Garcia, a Spaniard who migrated to Flagstaff in 1912. He owned and operated the adjacent Tourist Home. The Basque would reportedly herd sheep, drink, chase women, or play their beloved . . . — — Map (db m59498) HM
A gift to the Observatory from President A. Lawrence Lowell through this instrument the ninth planet Pluto was first found in 1930 ”It means a planet out there as yet unseen by Man, but certain sometime to be detected and added to the . . . — — Map (db m149454) HM
This rose is a clipping from a French Boursalt rose planted at the Arizona territorial governor's mansion at Prescott in 1865. The rose was brought from New York and planted by Margaret Hunt McCormick. She was the wife of Richard C. McCormick, the . . . — — Map (db m263431) HM
During the summer of 1947, the Arizona Highway Department constructed a 6.5 mile cut-off alignment of Route 66 through Flagstaff. This re-alignment shifted Route 66 away from the older Camp Townsend- Winona Road/U.S. Highway 89 alignment that . . . — — Map (db m263116) HM
Heading west, Route 66 helped determine Flagstaff's urban form by creating the long commercial corridor that provided travelers with motels, auto repair, gas, entertainment and food. The buildings along Route 66 that remain today are a living museum . . . — — Map (db m263117) HM
Built in 1931 by Dean Eldredge
Restored by Martin and Stacie Zanzucchi
Placed in the National Register of Historic Places
by the U.S. Department of the Interior on May 3, 1994
under the authority of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt
. . . — — Map (db m236440) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m33344) HM
This 1945 Model H International Farmall, purchased by the Zanzucchi Family after World War II, was used to plow the "Fields" at the Flagstaff Dairy. The Flagstaff Dairy operated from 1904 thru 1979 and was located 3 miles west of Flagstaff on Old . . . — — Map (db m178779) HM
The mountain in the distance, known as the San Francisco Peaks, soars to an elevation of 12,633 feet. Mr. C. Hart Merriam, while leading a scientific expedition to the Peaks in 1889, developed the concept of life zones. These zones describe how . . . — — Map (db m263186) HM
Devices of this nature have been used for thousands of years to tell time, although only in a crude sense. Our division of the day into uniform hours occurred recently--in the 16th century-- while intervals of minutes and seconds were developed well . . . — — Map (db m263185) HM
In 1866 the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was formed to construct a railroad from Springfield, Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, a distance of 2,000 miles.
In the summer and fall of 1882 the railroad was directly responsible for the founding and . . . — — Map (db m120891) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m41720) HM
(Japanese marker text not transcribed)
U.S. Astronomer Percival Lowell, Specialist of Mars, and Anamizu
Anmaizu Town And Its Friend City, Flagstaff, Arizona, U.S.A.
Dr. Percival Lowell (1855-1916_, the world famous . . . — — Map (db m263297) HM
John G. Verkamp came to Flagstaff in the 1890s. He first worked for the Babbitts (three of his sisters were married to Babbitt brothers), then succeeded in a number of businesses on his own, including lumber, livestock and merchandising. He is best . . . — — Map (db m59505) HM
Arizona Equal Suffrage Assn hosted speech by national suffragist Anna Howard Shaw here in 1912 to promote woman suffrage in Arizona — — Map (db m193161) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m33338) HM
John Weatherford, who was raised in Weatherford, Texas, came to Flagstaff in 1886. He decided to stay here because he fell in love with the San Francisco Peaks at first sight. He tried his hand in several occupations, everything from saloon keeper . . . — — Map (db m59507) HM
This park is named in honor of Rollin W. Wheeler who served as mayor from 1960 to 1968, councilman from 1952 to 1960, and teacher, coach and counselor at Flagstaff High School from 1929 to 1968.
He molded citizens by action and . . . — — Map (db m263081) HM
Farming then did not mean vast fields like we use today. Anasazi and Sinagua people modified these small terraces to grow hand-tended corn, cotton, beans, and squash. We know the climate was about what it is now, very dry for farming. The terraces . . . — — Map (db m41715) HM
Wukoki, a modern Hopi word for “Big House” was once home for two or three prehistoric Indian families. The inhabitants are believed to have been of the Kayenta Anasazi culture, judging from the types of artifacts found during excavation . . . — — Map (db m60078) HM
This trail follows the south side of historic Route 66 from downtown Flagstaff to the east side of town. In the mid 1990s the City removed a series of Billboards from the strip or land between Route 66 and the BNSF railroad tracks, and replaced it . . . — — Map (db m263109) HM
1956 Grand Canyon TWA-United Airlines Aviation Accident Site has been designated a National Historic Landmark.
This tragic accident site represents a watershed moment in the modernization of America's airways leading to the establishment of . . . — — Map (db m81861) HM
Directly behind you, looking down into Hermit Canyon, you can see part of Hermit Trail and the remains of Hermit Camp. In 1911-12 the Santa Fe Railroad built both trail and camp to serve a blossoming tourist trade. Why did Santa Fe build here at . . . — — Map (db m156999) HM
The Horace M. Albright Training Center is a National Park Service facility for employee development. Established in 1963 and named for the National Park Service's second director, the training center serves as an educational program center for . . . — — Map (db m39602) HM
In the early days of Grand Canyon Village, the blacksmith shop served as a focal point of activity. The blacksmith was a highly skilled craftsman who welded the machinery, sharpened the tools, built water tanks, repaired the wagon wheels and shod . . . — — Map (db m39582) HM
Bright Angel Hotel (below) was built around 1895 to serve stagecoach passengers. In 1905 the hotel became Bright Angel Camp, which eventually included cabins and an adjoining tent village.
In 1935 the Fred Harvey Company replaced the camp . . . — — Map (db m39510) HM
The Bright Angel Lodge, as it is known today, began as a cabin and several tents on this site in 1896. The central unit designed by Mary Jane Colter, was built in 1935. This lodge contains some of the oldest buildings in the Grand Canyon Village, . . . — — Map (db m39565) HM
Each year thousands of hikers enter Grand Canyon on the Bright Angel Trail. They follow a tradition - and a trail route - established by prehistoric people. For centuries humans have used this route for two key reasons: water and access. Water . . . — — Map (db m39563) HM
In the early 1890s (exact date unknown) Buckey O'Neill built a log cabin here on Grand Canyon's south rim. It stands in front of you; it is Grand Canyon's oldest surviving historic structure.
Grand Canyon's modern era began with people like . . . — — Map (db m39545) HM
Artist Thomas Moran was a storehouse of pictures. In 1873, geologist John Wesley Powell invited Moran to accompany his geologic survey of the Grand Canyon region. For Moran, the canyon was "by far the most awfully grand and impressive scene." As a . . . — — Map (db m250577) HM
Maybe those mountains are hard to climb. Those trees so hard to cut.
But the air is pure, the water fine. And we're climbing right out of the rut....
For besides helping ourselves, you see. We are helping Mother and Dad.
- Robert L. . . . — — Map (db m78836) HM
The first Chief Topographic Engineer of the U.S. Geological Survey 1919-1929 and the first President of the American Society of Photogrammetry 1934 He headed a Geological Survey expedition through the Grand Canyon in 1923 to acquire information . . . — — Map (db m157000) HM
One thousand years ago, wood smoke curled up from a farming village on the riverside delta below you, named Unkar Delta. Many such villages have dotted Grand Canyon's bottomlands since ancient times. Corn, beans, squash, and cotton grew between . . . — — Map (db m250578) HM
You are standing on a section of the original Hermit Road, constructed in 1911-1913. It was a road ahead of its time, offering sweeping vistas and gentle grades, at a cost of $250,000 — an unheard of sum for such a short road. It was built for . . . — — Map (db m157147) HM
This monument honors Major John Wesley Powell, the leader of the first documented expedition through Grand Canyon. Imagine entering the depths of Grand Canyon down a roaring, not-yet-charted river, not knowing whether you will emerge. Because . . . — — Map (db m108883) HM
Named for Don Pedro de Tovar, the first European to visit the Hopi Indian villages in 1540, the hotel was constructed by Hopi Indian craftsmen at a cost of $250,000 employing logs shipped by train from Oregon and native Kaibab Limestone. The El . . . — — Map (db m39477) HM
In 1901, the screech of train brakes and the blast of a train whistle signaled the arrival of a new era in Grand Canyon Village. The railroad provided the most comfortable means of transportation to the canyon for more than a quarter century. This . . . — — Map (db m102856) HM
Below you, the Colorado River makes a dramatic turn. Ever since the river entered Grand Canyon at Lees Ferry, it has been deepening its gorge east of the Kaibab Plateau. Here, the river turned west to cut straight through the plateau, opening a . . . — — Map (db m250582) HM
"No language can fully describe, no artist paint the beauty, grandeur, immensity and sublimity of this most wonderful production of Nature's great architect. [Grand Canyon] must be seen to be appreciated."
C.O. Hall, Grand . . . — — Map (db m39659) HM
It is hard to imagine the power of Hance Rapid from this distance, 3.8 miles (6.1 km) away. Closer to its roar, it is clearly one of Grand Canyon's most hazardous rapids, as the Colorado River falls the height of a three-story building. River . . . — — Map (db m250580) HM
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