Historical Marker
Prison Labor
Historical marker location:
220 Prison Hill Road, Yuma, Arizona
( Marker can be reached from Prison Hill Road, ½ mile north of Harold C. Giss Parkway.)
Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park.
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.