Hart Pump House

Running water reached early Sedona through this small stone building. Built in the early 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps, the pump house drew water from Oak Creek and pushed it uphill to a ten-thousand-gallon tank, which then fed it back down by gravity to the Forest Service ranger station, the schoolhouse, and the Hart Store. A tidy example of the cobblestone construction the CCC favored, it solved the basic problem of a creekside town perched above its own water. The waterworks outlasted the era that built it.

What the plaque says

Hart Pump House. A designated Sedona Historic Landmark , built in 1932 by the Civilian Conservation Corps

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sedona — 0.4 mi
  Red-rock skyline, Little Hollywood, and the town Sedona Schnebly gave her name to
• Oak Creek Canyon — 7.1 mi
  The switchback drive from red rock to ponderosa on State Route 89A
• Tuzigoot — 16 mi
  A hilltop Sinagua pueblo over the Verde, dug out of the ground in the Depression
• Montezuma Castle — 18 mi
  A five-story Sinagua cliff dwelling, misnamed for an emperor who was never here

More markers nearby

• The Hart Store, 1926 — steps away
• The Sinagua — 0.3 mi
• Carl Richards' Garage — 0.5 mi
• Rollie's Camera — 0.5 mi