History of Lake Havasu City, Arizona
and Lake Havasu California

Read about the history of Lake Havasu City, and its acquisition of the historical London Bridge.
The original "Calendar of Events" from the 1971 Grand Opening of the London Bridge.  Top  ●  Middle  ●  Bottom
This Month at the Museum, Lake Havasu Museum of History. 320 London Bridge Road, Lake Havasu City, Arizona 86403  (928) 854-4938

Lake Havasu's scenic Whipple Bay, named for Amiel W. Whipple, its story here.

Lake Havasu's early mining camp at the Road's End, its history and photographs.
Where the Road Ends

From Where the Road Ends, Havasu Palms Recipes & Remembrances
Before Parker Dam
Birth of the Havasu Man
From Then to Now
This Wilderness
The Airstrip
Via Water
Road's End Restaurant, as of 1995
Gallery of Photos

Havasu Palms website, with a copy of the speech on the history of Road's End Camp and Havasu Palms, presented to the Lake Havasu Historical Society in 2005. Click here!

Additional Havasu Palms photographs and history:
Early Days, Clean up                An Eagle's View
Tribute to Walt Johnson           The one that got away
Takeover of Havasu Palms       Snapshots   
Havasu Man, the Poem