Walker, Community of

Yavapai County · At the turnoff to Walker on Arizona Highway 69. · location approximate

The Community of WALKER In 1863 gold was discovered on Lynx Creek by a member of the Walker party. This led to settle- ment of northern Arizona and establishment of the territorial capital at Prescott. Captain Joe Walker had already won fame as a trapper and explorer in the California Sierras.

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1958 text, presented as a historical document.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 ↗

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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