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La Paz Placers

Yuma County · On ridge 5 or 6 miles from Ehrenberg, preferably on north side of highway at turnout that would look out over foothills of the La Paz Mountains toward the river to the northwest. · location approximate

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LA PAZ PLACERS Discovery of gold in streambeds leading from foothills to the Colorado River started gold rush here in 1862, and led to further prospecting in interior of Arizona. La Paz was a river port, county seat of Yuma County, had a military post, and once was suggested as site of the territorial capital. Now the desert has claimed it again.

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1958 text, presented as a historical document.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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