Just prior to the
Civil War, in 1857, Lt. Edward Fitzgerald Beale was ordered by the War
Department to take his Corps of Topographical Engineer position and survey and
build a federal wagon road across the west on the 35th
Parallel. One day in the future this
wagon road would become the famous Route 66!
At the heart of this
road, in 1882, the town of Kingman was founded in the Arizona Territory. It’s in the Hualapai Valley between two
mountain ranges: the Cerbat and Hualapai.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad had a siding near there, and the town
was named for Lewis Kingman who was a surveyor for the railroad.
Now Kingman will be
the location of our newest contract beginning August 5th! Granpa starts Monday through Friday for two weeks. After that, he will be working three 12-hour days. That will give us 4-day "weekends"! Lots of time to explore the ghost towns in the area, zip up to the Grand Canyon, and - uh-oh! Vegas is only an hour and a half away... Prayer. Prayer would be good.
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