WINSLOW


Meaning of WINSLOW in English

city, Navajo county, east-central Arizona, U.S. It lies in the valley of the Little Colorado River. Founded in 1882 as a divisional terminal of the Santa Fe Railway, it was named for Edward F. Winslow, a railroad official. Winslow's economy is based upon railroad services, lumbering, livestock raising (mainly by the Indians), and tourism. Meteor Crater is a few miles west. To the north is the extensive Navajo Indian Reservation, which includes Monument Valley and Canyon de Chelly National Monument and which encloses the Hopi Indian Reservation. Inc. town, 1900; city, 1957. Pop. (1990) 8,190.

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