Jakes Corner - An Arizona Stage Stop

In 1916, Jakes Corner originally called Felton, started as a stage stop, on the Annie Hardt homestead.

As a pull out on the road to Globe, stages used to stop and wait as the occasional flooding Salt River receded. Annie Hardt ...

Williams, Arizona

The area around what now is Williams, Arizona, was first explored by a Mountain Man who came to this area in 1876, William Shirley Williams, who was called “Old Bill”.

The town site was created by a cowboy named C.T. Rogers ...

Arizona and Utah / Western Arizona Railway

Originally built in 1899 as the Arizona and Utah Railway, this short-line reached almost twenty five miles from the siding at McConnico on the Sante Fe to the White Hills. In 1904, a storm washed out much of the route. ...

Oatman, Arizona

Elevation 2700 Feet

Oatman was founded about 1908. By 1931,

the areas mines which 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 ...

First Home of Eastern Arizona College

First home of the present Eastern Arizona College was Central's red-brick churchhouse located just north of this marker. Founded December 1890 The many-named school moved the next year to Thatcher.

Marker is on Central Road east of U.S. 70, on the ...

Arizona’s Liberty Bell Monument

Dedicated To You, A Free Citizen In A Free Land

This reproduction of the Liberty Bell was presented to the people of

Arizona

by direction of

The Honorable John W. Snyder

Secretary of the Treasury

As the inspirational symbol of the United States savings bonds ...

J. W. Walker/Central Arizona Light & Power Building

The J. W. Walker/Central Arizona Light & Power Building was built in the spring and summer of 1920 by Phoenix businessman and real estate developer J. W. Walker. Designed by prominent early Phoenix architect L. M. Fitzhugh, the Neo-Classical Revival ...

Arizona's Honeymoon Trail

For nearly forty years, couples from Arizona settlements left their homes each fall after harvest and traveled 400 miles to St. George, Utah. Winding slowly through desert and steep canyons, crossing barren plateaus, and passing rivers and pools of undrinkable ...

Memorial to Arizona Confederate Troops

Memorial to

Arizona Confederate Troops

1861 - 1865

United Daughters of the Confederacy

1961

"A Nation That Forgets its Past has no Future"

Marker can be reached from Adams Street 0.1 miles west of 15th Avenue and Adams.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Arizona's Pioneer Women

Before 1875 hundreds of heroic women came to Arizona from the East and South. From this group came Arizona's first schoolteachers and the publisher of the first newspaper.

In 1876 a group of pioneer women and their families came from the ...