Charles Lindberg dedicated the Transcontinental Air Transport airport on June 8, 1929. World War II brought the Kingman Army Airfield to Kingman. I was able to find some interesting information here:
Because we have a friend with the same name, I had to include this. Somehow Bill is connected to just about everyone or everything we know, even if it is just his name!
Next stop was the Powerhouse, which is on the National Registry of Historic Places. It once supplied power to Kingman and the area mines until the Hoover Dam was built. Now it has a Visitor's Information Center and Route 66 Museum. Cary was wearing his Route 66 shirt (I made it several years ago) and not one single person there commented on it. Until we got to a thrift shop and some guy who probably had been smoking something made a comment about liking it and Cary had a very hard time getting away from him!
By now our legs and backs were aching and we were hungry, so we skipped the last stop of our planned tour, the Bonelli House, went back to the trailer for lunch, and decided to check out the old downtown area.
The Quilters didn't do a very good job of hiding away--I still found them! But no purchase, still too early in the trip.
We have really enjoyed our visit here, will make sure we come back because we really wanted to get to Oatman too, but we have reservations for most of the rest of the trip....
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