Lake Havasu City showcases artifacts from 2000 time capsules, credits community volunteers

Mayor Kyle Sheehy and City Manager Jessica Knudson hosted a special "Coffee with the Mayor and City Manager" on Jan. 27, 2025, to display artifacts recovered from time capsules buried at Lake Havasu City's north and south entrance monuments in 2000.

Sheehy said the city and volunteers decided to unearth the containers before a public reveal because there was no surviving road map for how they were sealed and because roadside sites are not safe for large gatherings. "And it also, although it looks like it might be safe on the side of the highway, it's not very safe on the side of the highway to have all of us join there or convene there in the morning," Sheehy said.

City staff and volunteers described a laborious unearthing that required jackhammers and crowbars and took roughly an hour to reach the sealed containers. City Manager Jessica Knudson said groundwater seeped into some boxes and caused visible water damage to letters and newspapers, though many items survived because they had been wrapped or placed in containers.

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