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Historical marker location:

120 East Van Buren Street, Phoenix, Arizona

( Marker is on East Van Buren Street west of 2nd Street, on the right when traveling west.)

The Apache Trail was built by prison labor: The Apache Trail is a scenic drive through the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix. The road was built in the early 1900s using prison labor from the nearby Yuma Territorial Prison.