Cameron Suspension Bridge - Cameron, AZ - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

AZ Historical Plaque States
Cameron
(Orinally Tanner's Crossing)
Named for one of Arizona's first U.S. Senators. A pioneer in development of trails and copper mines in Grand Canyon. Near here was the site of Tanner's Crossing of the Little Colorado River on The Mormon Trail from Utah via Lee Ferry to settlements in Arizona and Mexico.
Arizona Development Board
Arizona Highway Department
1964

Information from "The Rough Guide to the Grand Canyon" By Greg Ward, Rough Guides
Cameron
The Mormon Trail originally crossed the Little Colorado River at a rocky ford six miles upstream. That became known as Tanner’s Crossing, in honor of Seth Tanner, a Mormon prospector from Tuba City who built a house nearby in the 1870’s. He later expanded his operations into the Grand Canyon area, where he also gave his name to the Tanner Trail.
After the danger from quicksand and flooding at Tanner’s Crossing led to the construction of the first suspension bridge across the gorge in 1911, Cameron – named for another legendary canyon prospector, Ralph Cameron – sprang into being on the south side of the span. That one-lane bridge is still there, but now it only carries an oil pipeline, having been superseded by a broader modern highway bridge.

Cameron Trading Post
The over-expanding Cameron Trading Post, clustered beside the two bridge, remains at heart what it started out as in 1916 – a trading venter for the Navajo Nation. Reservation residents still flock in to stock up on wool, flour and other supplies, catch up with friends, fill up their gas tanks, and pick up their mail, and much of the trading post’s business is still conducted by barter.


Cameron Suspension Bridge ** (added 1986 - Structure - #86001206)
Also known as Cameron Bridge;Little Colorado River Bridge
Carries US 89 over the Little Colorado River, Cameron
Historic Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer: Midland Steel Co., Office of Indian Affairs
Architectural Style: Other
Area of Significance: Engineering, Transportation, Commerce
Period of Significance: 1900-1924
Owner: Private
Historic Function: Transportation
Historic Sub-function: Road-Related
Current Function: Industry/Processing/Extraction, Transportation
Current Sub-function: Energy Facility

County / Borough / Parish: Coconino Year listed: 1986 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering Periods of significance: 1900-1924 Historic function: Transportation Current function: Industry/Processing/Extraction, Transportation Privately owned?: yes Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Secondary Website 1: [Web Link] Street address: Not listed Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed Secondary Website 2: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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