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Tuzigoot was excavated from 1933 to 1935 by Louis Caywood and Edward Spicer of the University of Arizona, with funding from the federal Civil Works Administration and Works Project Administration. In 1935–1936, with additional federal funding, the ruins were prepared for public display, and a Pueblo Revival -style museum and visitor center ...
Cottonwood Valley is a wide valley on the Colorado River on the border between Mohave County, Arizona and Clark County, Nevada.It extends east and west from the river into both states and is the first wide valley south of the Black Canyon of the Colorado, the last in a series of great canyons the Colorado River passes through after leaving the Rocky Mountains on its way west and where it makes ...
Main Street in Cottonwood was created 1908, when two settlers "used a mule team to pull and drag through brush". [5] In 1917, Clemenceau, a mining town that is now part of Cottonwood, was established nearby. [5] The Clemenceau smelter closed in 1936, causing job loses and a disruption to the area. [5] Cottonwood incorporated in 1960. [6]
Pecks Lake is a small reservoir, fed by water from the adjacent Verde River, near Clarkdale in the U.S. state of Arizona. The name of the nearby Tuzigoot National Monument comes from an Apache word, Tuzigoot, meaning crooked water. [3] The "crooked water" reference is to Pecks Lake, [3] established in a cutoff meander of the river. [4]
The Bank of Arizona building is located at 816 N. Main Street Cottonwood, AZ 86326. Opened Jan 25, 1954 as the "most modern" in the state with drive-in teller and complete Air Conditioning. It housed the City of Cottonwood police department until a consolidated police, fire, EMS presence was constructed on 6th Street in the 1990s.
Jacob Lake is a small unincorporated community on the Kaibab Plateau in Coconino County, Arizona, United States, [1] at the junction of U.S. Route 89A and State Route 67.Named after the Mormon explorer Jacob Hamblin, the town is known as the "Gateway to the Grand Canyon" because it is the starting point of Route 67, the only paved road leading to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon some 44 miles ...
Grand Lake Lodge: Grand Lake Lodge. July 22, 1993 : 15500 U.S. Highway 34 Grand Lake: 8: Grand River Ditch: Grand River Ditch. September 29, 1976 ...
Hikers may only camp at the Bright Angel or Cottonwood Campgrounds, where they can stay overnight with a permit issued by the Grand Canyon National Park Backcountry Information Center. Use of the campground overnight is regulated by the National Park Service, and they call for a maximum number of groups (7 to 11 people) and parties (1 to 6 ...