Historic Districts The following three districts are considered historical by the National Register of Historic Places: • The
Brinley Avenue Historic District – bounded by 29–96 W. 2nd St., 198–200 S. Main, 201 S. 1st, and 102–298 Madison Aves. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on March 10, 1994, reference #94000068. Pictured is the historic Yuma Theater located at 254 S. Main Street which was built in 1911. • The
Yuma Century Heights Conservancy Residential Historic District – roughly bounded by 4th Ave., 8th St., and 1st and Orange Aves. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 1988.
Educational institutions The educational institutions considered historical are: • The
Sanguinetti House built in 1870 and located at 240 Madison Ave. The house was built for businessman E.F. Sanguinetti and his family. It now houses the Sanguinetti House Museum and Gardens. It is located at 1415 1st, Avenue. Among those who are interred in the cemetery is
Jack Swilling. the founder of Phoenix. He is buried in the Hodges family cemetery plot.
Yuma Territorial Prison The
Yuma Territorial Prison was a prison built by prisoners in 1875. The prison opened while Arizona was
still a U.S. territory. Conditions in the prison were harsh. Some prisoners had to sleep in steel bunkbeds. The prison also has a "Dark Room" in which some prisoners were sent for solitary confinement as a formof punishment. During the next 33 years, 3,069 prisoners were incarcerated there, including 29 women. Among the notable prisoners was
Jack Swilling, a.k.a. the "
Father of Phoenix", who was accused and incarcerated for a crime that he did not commit. Swilling died in the prison in 1878. Also, among those incarcerated were: •
Burt Alvord –
Cochise County lawman and train robber •
Bill Downing – Notorious outlaw and train robber •
William J. Flake –
Mormon pioneer imprisoned for violating the
Edmunds Act •
Pearl Hart – stagecoach robber •
"Buckskin Frank" Leslie – gunfighter and killer of
Billy Claiborne •
Ricardo Flores Magón – Mexican revolutionary, founder of the
Partido Liberal Mexicano •
Pete Spence – outlaw involved in the
Earp-Clanton feud The prison is one of the
Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites on the
National Register of Historic Places in the
Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area. The site is now operated as a historical museum by
Arizona State Parks as Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park.
Yuma Quartermaster Depot The
Yuma Crossing is a site in
Arizona and
California that is significant for its association with transportation and communication across the
Colorado River during the Spanish colonial and the American expansion eras. The
Yuma Quartermaster Depot served as a historic Army supply depot that operated during Arizona's
Indian Wars period from 1865 to 1883. The supplies gathered at the quartermaster depot, which is located along the Colorado River, were shipped throughout the southwest via river boats and overland on mule team freight wagons. Up to 900 mules were kept in stables at Yuma Quartermaster Depot. • The
Yuma Crossing Marker located on the Banks of the Colorado River. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1966, reference #66000197. • The
Yuma Quartermaster Depot was built in 1864. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1966, as part of the Yuma Crossing, reference #66000197. • The
Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Coach Car – S.P. X7 – was built in 1875 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places on March 2, 2000, reference #00000101. •
Southern Pacific Railroad Locomotive X2521 – was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone (Philadelphia) PA in August 1907. ==Further reading==