Picacho Peak State Park Reports and Documentation
Part of: Arizona State Parks Reports and Documentation
This collection contains reports pertinent to Picacho Peak State Park. Document types may include site stabilization reports, site evaluation or survey reports, expert consultations, ground disturbance monitoring, excavation reports, architectural documentation or survey, heritage management plans and evaluations, historic background research, and inventory and records searches.
Site Type Keywords
Funerary and Burial Structures or Features •
Isolated Burial •
Battlefield •
Inhumation •
Coffin-Type Interment
Other Keywords
Metal Button •
Wooden Cross •
Civil War •
Female Burial •
Union Army •
Glass Button •
Button •
Nail •
Adult Burial •
Bone (Human)
Culture Keywords
Historic •
Mexican? •
Caucasian?
Investigation Types
Consultation
Material Types
Glass •
Human Remains •
Metal •
Wood •
Textile •
Bone •
Fabric •
Cloth •
White Glass •
Cotton
Temporal Keywords
Civil War •
19th Century •
Historic •
1880s
Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
Pinal County (County) •
North America (Continent) •
Picacho, Arizona •
Picacho State Park
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Report on the Recovery of Human Skeletal Material from the Picacho Pass Battle Marker, Arizona (1975)
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On or about May 19, 1975, the Arizona State Museum was informed by Mr. Alan Gross of the State Parks System that the monument commemorating the Union dead at the Battle of Picacho Pass had been moved from its original location. Further, that while excavations for this removal were being conducted (either by the Parks personnel or the Tucson firm employed for the removal), allegedly human skeletal remains were uncovered beneath the monument. The ASM was requested to investigate and to remove the...