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@looo ~ ,Self-guided tour lQJ ~ WESLEY BOLIN I] ' m m Ii ·)l el • • ~ Public restrooms III & ve'nding~ ma'chines February 14, 2013 Info OUR next century! N Map provided courtesy of Ken Bennett, Arizona Secretary of State + To Downtown Phoenix ~ ~ .,, A. Victims of Domestic Violence Memorial ~ IB] --------------------1""---·-----------------1 ~ Vl B. Rep. Jim Cooper Memorial rn 1. Wesley Bolin Memorial Marker 8. Arizona Pioneer Women Memorial 15. Martin Luther King Mem rial 24. Arizona Law Enforcement K9 Memorial :; ~ C. The Childrens' Tree Memorial -...."' 2. Crime Victims Memorial 9. 4th Marine Division Memorial 16. Armenian Holocaust Memorial 25. Battle of the Bulge/Ardennes Veterans Memorial ~ ~ D. Arizona War Heroes Memorial ·-0 ~lfo.t e 3. Father Kina Statue 10. Civilian Conservation Corps Memorial 17. Desert Storm Memorial 26. Purple Heart Memorial ~ ~ E. Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients (1) 4. Navajo Code Talkers Memorial 11. WW I Veterans Memorial 18. Enduring Freedom Memorial 27. Arizona Peace Officer Memorial .!!? ..2 F. Lt. Frank Luke Jr. Memorial ~ 5. Bushmasters Memorial 12. Law Enforcement Memorial 19. 9-11 Memorial 28. Father Albert Braun O.F.M. Statue ElJo.t ·-:;-- G. Arizona Homicide Victims Memorial "'N 6. Arizona Workers Memorial 13. Jewish War Veterans Memorial 20. Korean War Memorial 29. American Merchant Seaman Memorial :Su H. Sen. Andy Nichols Memorial l!».t-"' 7. The 10 Commandments Memorial 14. Confederate Troops Memorial 21. USS Arizona Mast Memorial 30. Vietnam Veterans Memorial I. Senator Carl Hayden Memorial ©2013 Arizona Secretary of State's Office - Ken Bennett, Secretary of State 22. USS Arizona Anchor 31. Bill of Rights Monument J. Heritage Live Oak Memorial Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records - Museum Division 23. Ernest W. McFarland Memorial 32. WW 11 Memorial - Salute the Fallen Wall/Battleship Guns K. 200th Anniversary of U.S. Constitution Wesley Bolin Plaza The Bushmaster Memorial The insignia on the memorial is of the Wesley Bolin Plaza Marker _ 5 "Bushmaster," a ·snake entwined around a ma• chete. The memorial is dedicated to the Bushmas• The Plaza is named for Wesley Bolin who served ters, a Hispanic and Native American unit of the Ari• from 1949 to 1977 as Arizona Secretary of State. 1 zona National Guard's 158th Regimental Combat He was the first Secretary to serve a four-year term. Team. The group's lineage began in 1865 at Mari• He also served as Arizona Governor for four months copa Wells when all members were Pima Indians. beginning October 20, 1977, after Governor Raul They served as honor guard during World War I for Castro accepted a federal appointment as U.S. am• President Woodrow Wilson during the 1917 peace bassador to Argentina. Bolin died in March of 1978. talks in France. The group also saw heavy combat in Arizona Crime Victim Rights Memorial the Pacific Theater in World War II. U.S. General Arizona was among the first states to establish a Douglas MacArthur, who commanded the Southwest 2 comprehensive Crime Victims' Bill of Rights. Pacific Theater during the war, referred to the 158th County Attorney Rick Romley unveiled t~e Arizona as "the greatest fighting combat team ever deployed Crime Victims' Rights Monument on Apnl 19, 2005. for battle." The unit was retired on December 3, 1967. During the dedication U.S. Senator Jon Kyl and Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon were in attendance to Arizona Workers Memorial, present attorney Steve Twist with the ~r~t "~ict.ims' El Pasaje (The Passage) Voice Award" for his commitment to Victims Rights. In 1994, the Legislature authorized the desig~, Father Francisco Kino Statue 6 creation and placement of a workers' memorial This statue was presented to Arizonans in 1967 on the Plaza. El Pasaje was dedicated on Septem• 3 by the people of the State of Sonora, Mexico .. ber 6, 1999. The dedication culminated a five-year The statue includes a time capsule to be opened in effort to erect a monument in honor of Arizona's August 22, 2235. A Jesuit Spanish mission~ry, Fa• working men and women who have suffered injury or ther or "Padre" Kino began to explore what rs now death in their workplaces. El Pasaje features three known as the American southwest in 1691. He was figures that personify the working men and women of known as the "Padre on horseback," was an explor• Arizona and the enduring promise of renewal em• er, cattleman, mapmaker, and defender of the fron• bodied in the children of working people. El Pasaje tier. He was well-respected by the Natives and the was designed, sculpted and cast by Clarke Reidy. Spanish during his 24 years in the region. Padre Ki• The 1 O Commandments Memorial no helped establish many missions, inclu~ing San This memorial was presented by the Past Presi• Xavier del Bae near Tucson. 7 dents Club of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Navajo Code Talkers Memorial #2407 in 1963. The monument was sculpted by Navajo and Arizona Pioneer Women Memorial Cowboy Artists of America member Oreland Joe. 4 This memorial was dedicated by the Daughter~ It stands to commemorate the Navajo Code Talkers of Utah in 1968. Mormons migrated from Utah in of WW II and was dedicated on February 28, 2008, 8 the mid-to-late 1800s and helped to establish Arizo• by the Navajo Code Talker Memorial Foundation. na communities and towns such as Joseph City, Me• During World War II, the Japanese repeatedly broke sa, Show Low and Springerville. With them came secret military transmissions until the deployment of strong pioneer Mormon women who not onl~ cared the Code talkers. Originally 29 Navajo Marines creat• for their families and home, but helped to build com• ed the Navajo Code with more than 450 military munities, ranch, farm and defend their property. The terms and phrases. The Code Talkers were part of memorial is dedicated to the hardships these women every U.S. Marine Pacific assault from 1942 to 1945. faced and their significant role in Arizona's history. A twin to this monument stands in Window Rock, Ariz. on the Navajo Nation. World War II Civil War 4th Marine Division Memorial Confederate Troops Memorial The Fourth Marine Division was activated August 14 The United Daughters of the Confederacy 9 16, 1943, and training at Camp Pendleton, Cali- dedicated this memorial in 1961 to honor Ari- fornia. The Division sailed from San Diego, California zona's Confederate soldiers. In 1861 and 1862 fed• and served battles at the Marshall Islands, Marianas eral troops that were once stationed in· the territory Islands, and lwo Jima. The division was deactivated were busy defending the Union. Without a federal in 1945. military presence, attacks and raids between the Apache Tribe and Arizona settlers increased. The Civilian Conservation Corps Memorial Confederate army pushed westward into a largely This memorial was dedicated on October 20, defenseless southwest and was welcomed by these 1 0 1990, to salute Arizonans who served with 3 settlers for protection. The presence of these troops million Civilian Conservation Corps members in the also created sympathy for the Southern cause. In · 1930s. The Corps was founded during the Great 1862 Confederacy President Jefferson Davis signed Depression to provide work projects and infrastruc- a bill that made Arizona a Confederate Territory; Un- . ture to America's jobless. Some Corps project wor- · ion President Abe Lincoln signed a bill creating the thy of note include installation of the state's first tele- Arizona Territory on February 24, 1863. phone lines; roads and picnic ramadas at South Mountain Park (the mountains just south of Bolin Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Plaza); and the making and maintaining of Grand 15 The Sun Valley Caucus, a group a business- Canyon trails and rock walls along the rim in north- men and women interested in political action ern Arizona. by and for minorities, dedicated this memorial on January 9, 1984. The memorial honors Dr. Martin World War I Luther King, Jr. who was a leader in the Civil Rights Veterans Memorial Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Dr. King was This memorial reminds us of those Arizonans born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. Some 11 who served valiantly in World War I. The Unit• of his most notable speeches and sermons include: ed States of America entered the war in 1917 on the March on Washington (1963); Nobel Peace Prize side of the Western Allies. Native Phoenician Frank Acceptance Speech (1964); and I've been to the Luke, Jr., for whom the West Valley's Luke Air Force Mountaintop (1968). He was assassinated in Mem• Base is named, was a casualty of this war. A statue phis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. stands in his honor in front of the State Capitol. On the back of the monument lists the names of more Armenian Holocaust Memorial than 300 Arizonans who died in World War I. The Armenian community of Arizona dedicat• 16 ed this memorial to expose the genocide of __,_--= __ L_a_w_E_n_f_o_r_c_e_m_e_n_t_M_e_m_o_r_i_a_l Armenians in Turkey during World War I and shortly The State Lodge of the Fraternal Order of thereafter. It is estimated that one and a half million 12 Police (F.O.P.) dedicated this memorial in Armenians died by torture, massacre, and starvation 1965. This memorial honors Arizona Police officers between 1915 and 1923. This monument of tufa who die in the line of duty. stone, a rock native to both Arizona and Armenia, has names of the survivors of the holocaust who World War II eventually found their way to settle in Arizona. Jewish War Veterans Memorial Valley of the Sun Post No.