Yuma Crossing Park - Yuma, Arizona
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N 32° 43.629 W 114° 37.410
11S E 722710 N 3623537
4th Avenue Just Before The Bridge......Crossing to California
Waymark Code: WM4ADY
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 07/29/2008
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Yuma Crossing Park - Yuma, Arizona
Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park, site of the Yuma Quartermaster Depot, was used by the US Army to store and distribute supplies for all the military posts in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Texas. A six month supply of clothing, food, ammunition, and other goods was kept at the depot at all times. The supplies were brought from California by ocean vessels traveling around the Baja Peninsula to Port Isabel near the mouth of the Colorado River. There, cargos were transferred to river steamers and brought upstream to Yuma.
Marker Name: Yuma Crossing Park
Type of history commemorated: Place
County: Yuma
Name of any agency/ agencies setting marker:
Yuma City - County Bicentennial Commission and Arizona Historical Society
Year placed: November 29 1975
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