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YUMA, AZ PRISON HILL RD GILA ST Sanguinetti3RD ST House Museum & Gardens JEWEL OF HISTORIC YUMA In the heart of historic Yuma is theGIS charmingS PKWY 19th-century adobe home of E. F. Sanguinetti. This quaint home is now a museum chronicling Sanguinetti’s life story, as the Merchant Prince of Yuma. Coming to Yuma penniless at age 15, E. F. Sanguinetti (1867-1945) quickly grew to become a civic-minded businessman whose numerous Yuma Quartermaster Depot enterprises forever changed the community he loved. State Historic Park NEW THIS SEASON: Secrets of Victorian Yuma Exhibit §§ Civil War Days January 28-29, 2017 Tours: Museum Tours Every 30-Minutes, Ghost Trolley Tours, Historic §§ Pie Shop Open Tuesday–Sunday, November–April Yuma Trolley Tours, Historic Yuma Walking Tours CALIFORNIA A National Historic 928-782-1841 | 240 S. Madison Avenue, Yuma, AZ 85364 ARIZONA Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am-3pm Landmark on the ArizonaHistoricalSociety.org/Yuma EXIT 172 1 Quartermaster Depot/Visitor Center 4TH AVE featuring WINTERHAVEN 2 Pivot Point Plaza 3 Sanguinetti House CO Yuma 4 Territorial Prison LO R A DO RIV Territorial Prison 1 2 4 ER

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Yuma has set the standard for environmental restoration with 400 acres of beautiful wetlands and 200,000 native trees! Experience the story of the Colorado River LIFEBLOOD OF THE SOUTHWEST

Once wild and uncontrollable, the Colorado River is now CIRCA 1900 the most dammed river in the world—a river that slows to a trickle at the Mexican border, just 20 miles from CIRCA 2000 Yuma. How did this happen? Learn the uses of the Colorado The 3:10 to Yuma Stops Here New for 2016-2017: The dams brought a River from Hoover Dam to the Introductory Film Mexican border. secure water source, green YUMA TERRITORIAL PRISON STATE HISTORIC PARK on the Prison, plus many new exhibits! hydropower, and freedom from flooding, but also n July 1, 1876, the first seven inmates You don’t have to wait until 3:10; the park is open Have a large group? entered the Territorial Prison at Yuma from 9-5 daily (see seasonal hours below), so Not a problem, we can altered the Colorado River’s Oand were locked into the new cells they you can enter the cells where the Southwest’s create a special tour natural ecology. Learn also had built themselves. Thus began the legend most hardened criminals were once locked up. for your large group. about how Yuma has restored of the Yuma Territorial Prison. A total of 3,069 The Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park Give us a call—we’ll its wetlands, leading the prisoners, including 29 women, lived within the is ideal for visitors who prefer to take their time help you coordinate effort for a return to balance walls during the prison’s 33 years of operation. and stroll around the park on a self-guided tour. all of the details! for the Colorado River.

Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park YumaPrison.org | 928.783.4771 220 N. Prison Hill Road, Yuma, AZ 85364 & Visitor Information Center Open Daily, 9am-5pm | $6 Park Admission 1.800.293.0071 or 928.783.0071 201 N. 4th Avenue, Yuma, AZ 85364 Summer Schedule (June 1-September 30) Closed Tue. & Wed. Open Daily, 9am-5pm | $4 Park Admission Closed for park maintenance September 5-20, 2017 Summer Schedule (June 1-September 30) Closed Mondays 1

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and outside of . The 1 Visitor information majority of the supplies came from San 5 Water Reservoir center Francisco and arrived by steamboat Supplied the Depot with a reliable source YUMA TERRITORIAL PRISON STATE HISTORIC PARK of water using a gravity-fed system “Where Does the Water Go?” Exhibit up the Colorado River. From the river, of underground pipes throughout the supplies were loaded onto carts and guarded against escapes. To the east, building was built with 60,000 adobe hauled into the storehouse. In the early site. A pump house once located just TOURS ELF-GUIDED View Deck 2 Corral House north of the reservoir brought Colorado 1 there is the newly-restored Yuma East bricks made by “Yumans” during the New Exhibits on the Yuma Siphon and 1900’s, the Bureau of Reclamation This site provides an excellent view Wetlands restoration project. Great Depression. It opened as a City occupied this building as part of River water to the reservoir. This water S of the Colorado River and the granite Yuma East Wetlands restoration! system allowed the Quartermaster to museum in March 1941 until Arizona their Yuma Project headquarters. outcroppings which form the Yuma Stored grain and tack for the mules and have a lush and enviable garden. 3 Sally Port State Parks assumed management horses quartered within the adjoining Crossing. There are also great views of of the park. In 2010, the museum’s the Indian Nation, St. Thomas One of the last remaining original 10-foot-tall adobe corral. The adobe 4 Quartermaster’s adobe structures of the 1876 Yuma exhibits were completely upgraded. corral has since been dismantled, and 6 Quartermaster’s Mission, the railroad bridge operated by Office Legend Territorial Prison, this facility served only the four rooms at the end Union Pacific Railroad, and the Ocean- Housed the Quartermaster’s personal House & Kitchen as the check point through which 5 Cell Block of the present-day Corral House are Parking Rest Rooms Picnic Tables Point of Interest to-Ocean Highway bridge, workspace for managing the Yuma Yuma’s oldest home prisoners entered and left the prison. Hear haunting echoes of hard time original to the depot. The remaining opened in 1915. Depot and its enormous supply Constructed in 1859 by entrepreneur This structure has been authentically in a hard place as you walk through portion of this building was constructed Legend inventory. The U.S. Army Signal George Johnson, the home later and lovingly restored. the cell block for the Bureau of Reclamation’s Guard Tower Corps also occupied one portion of became the Quartermaster’s personal Parking 2 South of the museum, this area With a commanding view of the Yuma Project in the early 1900s. the new building for the operation of residence. Two-foot-thick adobe walls, Rest provides a vivid sense of what it was high ceilings, a central breezeway, Rooms area and situated atop the Prison’s 4 Museum Yuma’s first telegraph line. An original Enjoy a brief video on the prison, like to be incarcerated at the Prison, and a detached kitchen are designed Picnic original water supply, this tower is six prisoners to a cell! Included in this 3 Storehouse desk used at the Quartermaster Tables as well as digital displays on Bad Girls to reduce heat within the home and a reconstruction of one of the many Exhibit on dams of the Depot is exhibited in the office. of the Old West and Mormon Prisoners. area is the infamous “Dark Cell” for helped ensure a comfortable living Point of towers which overlooked the prison and Colorado River Interest Situated on the original site of the incorrigible prisoners. Stored six months’ worth of supplies space in the desert. The house has Maps not to scale Prison Mess Hall, this New Deal-era destined for military posts both within been restored to its 1876 appearance.