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Old San Carlos

Gila County · On the south side of U. S. Highway 70 on the new alignment passing north of San Carlos Lake; possibly at the bridge crossing San Carlos Creek and overlooking the lake. · location approximate

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Apacheland OLD SAN CARLOS This famous old Indian Agency of the bloody Apache war days was covered by the waters of San Carlos Lake upon completion of Coolidge Dam in 1928. The old Indian cemetery was covered with a cement slab; buildings were moved several miles north to a new San Carlos.

Named in the Arizona Department of Transportation's 1997 list of markers standing in its right of way. That 1997 list covers only state highway right of way, so it does not reach markers on city streets, on tribal land, or in state and national parks.

1958 text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people. The book proposed 100 markers for Arizona's highways and records 14 as cast when it went to press.

Arizona still marks its history under the same law: the State Historical Advisory Commission approves a marker, the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records certifies that its text is authentic and historically correct, and the Arizona Department of Transportation erects and maintains the markers on state highway right-of-way. Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Historical Markers in Arizona, Vols. I-II (Arizona Development Board, 1958), text by Bert Fireman

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