Superstition Mountains

Pinal County · Apache Junction · location approximate

SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS The ancient battleground of the Apache and Pima Indians. Native myths contend that white limestone streak was the mark left by foam of an enormous deluge and flood. Modern legends place the Lost Dutchman Mine in the heart of the Superstitions near Weaver's Needle.

Proposed in this 1958 book. We have not found independent confirmation that this one was cast. 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1958 text, presented as a historical document.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 ↗

USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection

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

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