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Editor’s Note: The Yuma Sun is reprinting articles from past newspapers honoring Yuma’s unique history. This column is one in a series written by local historian Frank Love that appeared
Little was known about the navigability of the Colorado River above Fort Yuma until 1858 when Captain George Johnson took his steamboat, a side-wheeler dubbed the General Jessup upstream from Fort Yuma.
A collection of the interesting — and sometimes unusual — events that happened this week in Arizona history.Jan. 16On this date in 1900, the Gila Valley Bank, predecessor of the Valley National Bank, opened its doors in Solomonville.On this date in 1922, Isaac Polhamus, veteran steamboat captain on the Colorado River, rancher and Yuma resident for 66 years, died.
The longest war in American history was the conflict with the Seminole Indians of Florida which sputtered off and on from 1816 – 1858. The history books give scant notice to the fact that many of the Seminoles were Black.
