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Yellow Front was an American discount store [2] that original started as a single Army surplus store before evolving into a sporting goods chain and later a discount chain. In the 1950s, Yellow Stores opened in Phoenix as a small store selling Army Surplus items. [3] Jake Henegar bought the company from Jim Kelly in 1960.
Lori Piestewa (1979–2003) – United States Army, first Native American woman from Arizona to be killed in war; Iraq War, Purple Heart and Prisoner of War Medal recipient; Pat Tillman (1976–2004) – United States Army; Afghanistan Silver Star recipient; college and NFL football player
Greenwood Memory Lawn Mortuary & Cemetery is the official name given to a cemetery located at 2300 West Van Buren Street in Phoenix, Arizona owned by Dignity Memorial.The cemetery, which resulted as a merger of two historical cemeteries, Greenwood Memorial Park and Memory Lawn Memorial Park, is the final resting place of various notable former residents of Arizona.
The fort was initially a temporary base protecting the road from La Paz to Prescott during the Hualapai War. Just after being founded, it was abandoned for a new post named Camp Skull Valley, twenty-five miles to the north in March 1867. On May 11, 1867, the fort was reopened and renamed Camp Date Creek and later Fort Date Creek.
Kuykendall enlisted in the Arizona Army National Guard in 1953 and was put on active duty with the U.S. Army in 1956. Kuykendall served 3 years before returning to the National Guard, where he was made the Prescott Unit's Commanding Officer in 1959.
Fort Whipple is a former United States (U.S.) Army post that was temporarily established at Del Rio Springs, north of present-day Chino Valley, Arizona, and later relocated to a permanent site near present-day Prescott, Arizona.
John Preston Osborn – Osborn arrived in Prescott, Arizona in 1854. While he lived there, he built that town's first hotel. The hotel is also considered to be Arizona's first. Eventually he moved to the Salt River Valley and assisted in the establishment of Phoenix. Osborn died on January 19, 1900. Osborn Road in Phoenix is named after him. [30]
The following is a list of mayors of the city of Prescott, Arizona, USA. ... History of Arizona; Periods; Pre-Columbian before 1539; Territorial 1853-1912; Statehood ...