Hi Jolly Tomb - Quartzsite, AZ
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DopeyDuck
N 33° 39.873 W 114° 14.180
11S E 756256 N 3728390
The 12-ft pyramid tomb of Hadji Ali (Hi Jolly) is hard to miss in the Quartzsite Cemetery. Hi Jolly was a camel driver who worked for the army in an experiment to use camels as pack animals just before the Civil War.
Waymark Code: WM8MPQ
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 04/19/2010
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The tomb is a pyramid tomb made out of concrete, basalt, petrified wood and quartz, with a copper camel on top. The Arizona Department of Transportation erected the monument in 1935 and buried the ashes of the last government camel with him. A wooden placard near the pyramid traces Jolly's life and concludes with the observation that although the camel experiment failed, "a fair trial might have resulted in complete success."
The plaque reads:
"The Last Camp
of
HI JOLLY
Born Somewhere in Syria
About 1828
Died at Quartzsite
December 16 1902
Came to This Country
February 10 1856
Cameldriver - Packer
Scout - Over Thirty
Years a Faithful Aid
To the U.S. Government
Arizona
Highway Department
1935"
Other links about the history of Hi Jolly:
Out West Newspaper (
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AZ Central article (
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Roadside America (
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Desert USA (
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