Church Rock (Navajo County, Arizona)
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Church Rock, a famous landmark. Photo circa 1875.
Church Rock is a pillar in Navajo County, Arizona. It is located near the mouth of Church Rock Valley, at an elevation of 5,689 feet / 1,734 meters.[1]
History
Church Rock was originally named Artenesales de Piedra or Sculpted Rock, by the Mexican merchant and explorer Antonio Armijo in 1829-1830, when the area was explored by his expedition to find a trade route between Santa Fe de Nuevo México and Alta California. This would become the Armijo Route of the Old Spanish Trail.[2][3]
References
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Church Rock
- ↑ Diario que formo yo el ciudando Antonio Armijo, como comandante, para el descubrimiento del camino para el punto de las Californias (Diary made by citizen Antonio Armijo as commandant for the discovery of the route to the Californias), Official Register of the Government the United States of Mexico, 1830, pp. 205-206
- ↑ LeRoy R. Hafen and Antonio Armijo, Armijo's Journal,Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Nov., 1947), pp. 87-101, Published by: University of California Press, DOI:10.2307/3816035
Coordinates: 36°44′04″N 110°07′07″W / 36.73444°N 110.11861°W
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