Lees Ferry Trading Post and Fort – Lees Ferry, Arizona
In this area of the state, which was settled by Mormon John D. Lee, there stands a trading post built in 1913 and a stone fort built in 1874. They are still standing to allow visitors to see what life would have been like in that time of unrest between the Navajo and the settlers. The trading post has the small fortified windows (gun ports) on the right side of the building to protect it from attacks.
Lees Ferry was the first ferry crossing on the Colorado River for 260 miles prior to the building of the Navajo and Glen Canyon Bridges which were built in the 20th century. Everyplace else along the Colorado River is all limestone cliffs and sandstone from Moab, Utah to Laughlin, Nevada which made it impossible to ford.
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