Brownlee Ferry

Guiding Oregon Trail emigrants and a party of prospectors who had discovered gold in Boise Basin, Tim Goodale opened a new miners' trail through here in August 1862.

A gold rush followed that fall, and John Brownlee operated a ferry here ...

Lees Ferry

Because of long, deep canyons, Lees Ferry was the best crossing point along 500 miles (800 km) of the Colorado River.

In 1873, Mormon Church members opened a wagon road from Kanab, Utah, and built a ferryboat here. John D. Lee ...

Lee Ferry

From 1872 to 1929

principal route of travel

across the Colorado River

to Utah Settlements

First crossing made at the mouth of Paria Creek in 1864 by Jacob Hamblin. Regular ferry established by John Doyle Lee in 1872. Purchased by Latter-Day Saints Church after ...

Lee's Ferry

John D. Lee settled here in Dec. 1872 and established ferry service thirteen months later. After her husband's death, Warren M. Johnson ran the oar-driven ferry for Emma Lee, 1875 to 1879, when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day ...

Sleepy Hole Ferry

Three miles east, Benedict Arnold, returning from his Richmond raid, crossed the river there, January 16, 1781; Cornwallis, going to Portsmouth, crossed there in July 1781.

Marker is at the intersection of Nansemond Parkway (Virginia Route 337) and Kings Highway (Virginia ...