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Old Black Canyon Road

Yavapai County · At a turnout on west side of the grade running up Black Mesa between Rock Springs and Sunset Point on Arizona Highway 69. · location approximate

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THE WOOLSEY TRAIL Old Black Canyon Road The old stage and freighting route first used in 1865 connected Prescott and southern Arizona. It can be seen on the opposite side of the canyon. It was originally called the Woolsey Trail and later the Black Canyon Road.

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1958 text, presented as a historical document.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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