Gila County (County) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. Introcaso.

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-4 presents a written historical summary and relevant historical documentation about the construction and use of the Roosevelt Power Canal and Diversion Dam in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Lake in south-central Arizona. The report contains a narrative description, photographs, drawings, and maps. The Roosevelt Power Canal was built as an integral part of the Salt River Project and represents the U.S. Reclamation Service's first involvement...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christine Pfaff.

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-6A examines the origins, construction, use, and significance of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam Power Plant and Transformer House, located in south-central Arizona along the Salt River. The report contains a narrative description, drawings, maps, and historic photographs of the dam's power plant and transformer house. The power generating facilities at Roosevelt Dam, beginning with the 1906 temporary plant, were the first ever built by the Bureau...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. Introcaso.

Coolidge Dam was authorized in 1924 and was completed in 1928. It was built by the U.S. Indian Service. Today Coolidge Dam supplies water from the Gila River to the Gila River Indian Community and to non-Indian growers as well. This report satisfies Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) standards as established by the National Park Service. A copy of this report, along with a complete set of archival negatives and photographs, has been deposited in the HAER collection at the Library of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. Denise Ryan. Nellans. H. B. W..

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Halfway House site, comprised of four to six rooms, a wall, petroglyphs, and ceramics, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a Forest Service archaeological site inventory, site survey form, hand drawn site map, two maps of the site location, and five Prescott College petroglyph and pictograph records. The earliest dated document is from 1973.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Elizabeth Miksa.

Many of the archaeological ceramics found in the Power's Gulch area in the course of investigations for the Carlota Testing Project were found to be tempered with sand size material. In order to assess the composition and local versus non-local origin of the temper, seven sand and rock samples were collected from Power's Gulch and Pinto Creek by Mary-Ellen Walsh-Anduze of SWCA, Inc., in January of 1994. These seven sand and rock samples were submitted to Elizabeth Miksa of Desert Archaeology,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Barcus. Sinclair. Steinke. Stievater.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Hardt Hillfort site, comprised of a hilltop compund and room block, wall, and shrine-like stone structure, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site appears to have been used by the Salado. The file consists of two heritage inventory forms, two hand drawn site maps, and a map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 2000. Note that the forms inconsistently assign prehistoric and historic status to the same described features...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Barcus. Sinclair. Steinile. Stievater.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Hardt Hillfort site, comprised of a compound and room block with accompanying wall enclosure, artifact scatter, and shrine-like structure, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a two heritage inventory forms, map of the site vegetation and rock locations, map of the site localities, and a hand drawn site map. The earliest dated document is from 2000.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard C. . Barbara A. . W. G. Weinel. R. D. Armstrong. S. Germick.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Hematite House site, comprised of a stone, mortar, plaster, and saguaro rib cliff dwelling, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is affiliated with Salado or Mogollon occupation. The file consists of an Arizona State Museum archaeological data sheet, two archaeological site inventory forms, two hand drawn and one printed site map, an inventory standards and accounting form, and a prehistoric and historic archaeological sites form. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text W.G Weinel. R.D. Armstrong. Rich Lange. B. Murry.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Hematite House site, comprised of a small cliff dwelling and accompanying artifact scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a heritage inventory form and site map. The earliest dated document in the file is from 1970.

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Sample form used to assess site condition of Heritage Assets Properties on Tonto National Forest during data collection for paper entitled "Public Lands and Cultural Resource Protection: A Case Study of Unauthorized Damage to Archaeological Sites on the Tonto National Forest, Arizona"

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Hickcox Ruin site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a site data form.

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This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Hidden Ruin of Horseshoe Lake site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of six rooms, a plaza, sherd and lithic scatter, and petroglyphs. The file consists of a Central Arizona Water Control Study site description, a hand drawn site map, an Arizona State University site survey form and field journal pages with petroglyph sketches, and a map of the site location.

DOCUMENT Full-Text E. Morgan. Scott Wood. Elaine Zamora.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Hieroglyphic Springs site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a masonry structure, dacite wall, petroglyphs, and artifact scatter. The file consists of a site data form, preliminary inventory form, three maps of the site location, a flier about a special event consisting of a site field trip, and a National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet. The earliest dated form is from 1991.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. Martin McAllister. Dave Dovel.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Hilltop House site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a 14th-century Salado masonry pueblo with accompanying artifact scatter. It is a part of the Bead Mountain Pueblo Ruin Complex. The file consists of a site data form, three maps of the site location, archaeological site inventory form, image of the Bead Mountain Pueblo, two hand drawn survey maps of the Bead Mountain Pueblo Ruin Complex, a site information sheet,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald C. Jackson.

Roosevelt Dam comprises the key structure in one of the first major federally sponsored reclamation projects in the West. Authorized as one of the Reclamation Service's first projects in 1903, it continues to store water for agricultural lands, homeowners, and industrial concerns in the Phoenix region that are served by the Salt River Project. Used to impound floodwaters of the Salt River, the 280-foot-high Roosevelt Dam was distinguished as the tallest and last major stone masonry gravity dams...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Ayers.

During December 1982 and January 1983, representatives of the Environmental Services and Civil Engineering Departments of Salt River Project consulted with Archaeological Research Services, Inc. (ARS) regarding the status of archaeological and historical information pertaining to the Roosevelt Power Canal, a historic canal associated with Theodore Roosevelt Dam. As part of a Central Arizona Water Control Study sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. Introcaso.

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-7 presents a written historical summary and relevant historical documentation about the construction and use of the Coolidge Dam, which impounds water along the Gila River to form the San Carlos Reservoir 30 miles southwest of Globe, Arizona. It also contains a summary of Gila River water usage and conflicts over water access, from native Pima and Maricopa water use to Historic era, multi-community uses. The report contains a narrative...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. Introcaso.

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-4 presents a written historical summary and relevant historical documentation about the construction and use of the Roosevelt Power Canal and Diversion Dam in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Lake in south-central Arizona. The report contains a narrative description, photographs, drawings, and maps. It draws on information from the Archaeological Survey and Evaluation of Structural Components of the Roosevelt Power Canal (see...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald C. Jackson.

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-6 examines the origins and construction of Theodore Roosevelt Dam, the first major project to increase the Salt River Valley's water supply beyond that available from the "normal flow" of the Salt River in south-central Arizona. Sponsored by the Arizona Projects Office of the Bureau of Reclamation, this HAER documentation was undertaken because the Roosevelt Dam was dramatically altered in the early 1990s. The alteration served to increase the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christine Pfaff.

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-6A examines the origins, construction, use, and significance of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam Power Plant and Transformer House, located in south-central Arizona along the Salt River. The report contains a narrative description, drawings, maps, and historic photographs of the dam's power plant and transformer house. As the key structure in one of the first major federally sponsored Reclamation projects in the West, Theodore Roosevelt Dam...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Ayres. A. E. Rogge. Melissa Keane. Diane L. Douglas. Cindy L. Myers. Bonnie J. Clark. Karen Turnmire. Alan Ferg.

In June 1986 the Bureau of Reclamation awarded Dames & Moore a contract to conduct historical archaeology studies as part of the mitigation program for the Regulatory Storage Division (Plan 6) of the Central Arizona Project. Final reports on these studies are being issued in three volumes under the title The Historical Archaeology o f Dam Construction Camps in Central Arizona. Volume 1 is a synthesis of the entire project. Volume 3 details laboratory methods. Volume 2 contains descriptions and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pat H. Stein.

Located along a spring-fed stream, Indian Garden has attracted and supported as wide a range of activities as perhaps any site in the area below the Mogollon Rim. Recent work by Desert Archaelogy has shown that prehistoric people used the Indian Garden area as early as 770 B.C., and that Apaches exploited the locality during the early twentieth century (Ferguson and Anyon 2000a; Sarah Herr, personal communication 2007). From the 1880s to the turn of this century, the site served sequentially as...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pat Stein.

A chronological history of the Indian Garden site, located in the Kohls Ranch section of the State Route 260 - Payson to Heber project area.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pat H. Stein.

Located along a spring-fed stream, Indian Garden has attracted and supported as wide a range of activities as perhaps any site in the area below the Mogollon Rim. Recent work by Desert Archaeology has shown that prehistoric people used the Indian Garden area as early as 770 B.C., and that Apaches exploited the locality during the early twentieth century (Ferguson and Anyon 2000a; Sarah Herr, personal communication 2007). From the 1880s to the turn of this century, the site served sequentially as...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. Elaine Zamora. M. A. Sullivan.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Horse Cave site, comprised of a rock shelter with dense artifact scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. Dates of use are estimated as prior to 800 CE, c. 1300 CE, and 1700 to 1900. The file consists of a site data form, two maps of the site location, a preliminary inventory form, and a site map. The earliest dated form in the document is from 1987.