In Memory of Harold and Ethelind Woodhouse
who carved this farm out of the desert. We, the Wellton-Mohawk Valley Kiwanis Club, dedicate this spot. Here on May 1, 1952 Michael W. Straus, United States Commissioner of Reclamation turned the first water on to lands of the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project.
Marker is on East County 5th Street near South Avenue 39 East, on the right when traveling east.
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