Cameron

Originally Tanner's Crossing

Named for one of Arizona's first U.S. Senators. A pioneer in development of trails and copper mines in Grand Canyon. Near here was the site of Tanner's Crossing of the Little Colorado River on the Mormon Trail from Utah via Lee Ferry to settlements in Arizona and New Mexico.

Marker can be reached from U.S. 89, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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