Cairn reads "AT THE SECOND CROSSING OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER THE TOWNSITE OF FARWELL, LATER TO BE NAMED REVELSTOKE, WAS LOCATED ON THE 20TH OF OCTOBER 1883 BY ARTHUR STANHOPE FARWELL WHO CAME TO BRITISH COLUMBIA IN 1864 AND SERVED AS A CIVIL ENGINEER UNTIL HIS DEATH AT NELSON, B.C. IN 1908".