Historic Wagon Road - Holbrook, AZ - Arizona Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

The Historic Wagon Road marker is on the north side of Joy Nevin Ave., east of Navajo Boulevard, at the southeast side of Holbrook, Arizona.

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Historic Site
Historic Wagon Road
This monument marker a segment of an early road across Northern Arizona following the 35th Parallel Transcontinental Survey. The route evolved from several pathfinding expeditions: Lt. Amiel W. Whipple's 1853-54 Railroad Survey; Lt. Edward F. Beale's 1857 Military Experiement using camels for transport; and the wagon road constructed by Beale in 1858-59. Lt. Col. Jose' Francisco Chavez escorted Arizona's first Territorial Governor, John Noble Goodwin, over this trail in 1864 to establish a Capital in the Prescott vicinity. In 1876 Mormon immigrants from Utah entered the Little Colorado Valley along this road.

By Navajo County Historical Society
and
Arizona Historical Society

Marker Name: Historic Wagon Road Type of history commemorated: Place County: Navajo Name of any agency/ agencies setting marker: By Navajo County Historical Society and Arizona Historical Society Year placed: Unknown

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