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Image: Avondale-Gila and Salt River Meridan marker-1

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Description: Marker of the initial point of the Gila and Salt River Meridan on Monument Mountain in Avondale Az. The following is engraved on the round marker: U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management. Initial Point of Establishment in 1865. Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona. Cadastral Survey. The rectangular marker states the following: dedicated to all land owners in Arizona by the Arizona Professional Land Surveyors originally set by A. B. Gray in 1851. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 2002, reference #02001137.
Title: Avondale-Gila and Salt River Meridan marker-1
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