Quartermaster Depot (Site Type Keyword)
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On May 26, 1989, Archaeological Research Services, Inc. completed archaeological test excavations at the existing Officer's Quarters and Kitchen buildings at the Yuma Quartermaster Depot, Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park, in Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona. These investigations for Gerald A. Doyle and Associates exposed the east wall, granite masonry foundations for each of the historic buildings. Test data will be applied to planning the restoration of the two buildings.
Archaeological Test Excavations at the Quartermaster Building, Yuma Depot, Yuma Territorial Prison State Park, Yuma, Arizona (1980)
On October 2, 1980, Lyle M. Stone of Archaeological Research Services performed limited test excavations at the existing quartermaster building of the 1864-1885 Yuma Depot, now a part of Yuma Territorial Prison State Park, Yuma, Arizona. This project was authorized by Gerald A. Doyle and Associates, A.l.A. and was performed under the conditions of an Arizona antiquities permit (No. 80-13) issued by the Arizona State Museum to Archaeological Research Services on August 13, 1980. Doyle and...
A Record of a Portion of the Yuma/California Main Canal and the Yuma Valley Railroad (2009)
The Yuma Irrigation Project (YIP) was an early and essential Reclamation project in the Southwest, and the Yuma/California Main Canal and the Yuma Valley Railroad were important contributors to the success of the YIP and the early development of Yuma, Arizona. Construction on the YIP began shortly after a new federal agency - United States Reclamation Service - had been given authority to reclaim arid and semi-arid lands in the West in 1902. In only a couple of decades, the YIP infrastructure...
Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites National Historic Landmark: An Archaeological Perspective (1983)
This is a partial document containing only the portion of the full report relating to the water facility. A water facility, including a water storage tank and a pumphouse had been constructed at the Quartermaster Depot by 1869. The water tank, a stone masonry building approximately 34 ft east-west by 22 ft north- south in size, exists at present and is owned by the State of Arizona. The pumphouse or enginehouse, located to the north of the tank just above the Colorado River, was present in...