W.C. Smith/Rittenouse/Arriola's Cosmopolitan Store

Historical marker location:

315 North Main Street, Florence, Arizona

( Marker is on North Main Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2013

Historic Site.

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.