Cameron AZ Marker - Cameron, AZ
Posted by: DopeyDuck
N 35° 52.570 W 111° 24.725
12S E 462801 N 3970292
This marks the area of Tanner's Crossing of the Little Colorado River on the Mormon Trail.
Waymark Code: WM4MER
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 09/06/2008
Views: 48
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 That one-lane bridge is still there, but now it only carries an oil pipeline, having been superseded by a broader modern highway bridge.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.
Marker Name: Cameron
Type of history commemorated: Place
County: Coconino
Name of any agency/ agencies setting marker: AZ Development Board
AZ Highway Department
Year placed: 1964
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