Socatoon Station

File:Sacaton Stage Station near the Pima Villages, Arizona, in 1876.jpg

"Sacaton Stage Station near the Pima Villages, Arizona", 1876 watercolor by Joseph Basil Girard (Huntington Museum collection)

Socatoon Station was a stagecoach station of the Butterfield Overland Mail between 1858 and 1861. It was located four miles (6.4 km) east of Sacaton at a Maricopa village from which it took its name.^[1] This station was located 22 miles (35 km) east of Maricopa Wells Station, 11 miles (18 km) east of Casa Blanca Station and 13 miles (21 km) north of Oneida Station.^[2] The location of the station was on the route of the Southern Emigrant Trail at the first camp on the Gila River after crossing the desert from Tucson. It was a stopping place for the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line in 1857–58 before becoming the site of a Butterfield station.^[3] After the Civil War, it was again used as a stage station by other stage lines.

References

↑ John P. Wilson, Peoples of the Middle Gila: A Documentary History of the Pimas and Maricopas, 1500s – 1945, Researched and Written for the Gila River Indian Community, Sacaton, Arizona, 1998 (revised July 1999) Report No. 77, Las Cruces, New Mexico, p. 137 Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine
↑ "The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Chapter LXII. Operations on the Pacific Coast. January 1, 1861 – June 30, 1865. Part I., Correspondence, pp. 1017–18, Distances from Los Angeles, Cal., eastward to Mesilla, NM Territory". Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
↑ Table of distances from Texas Almanac, 1859, Book, ca. 1859; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123765/ accessed November 12, 2013), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association, Denton, Texas

[1] John P. Wilson, Peoples of the Middle Gila: A Documentary History of the Pimas and Maricopas, 1500s – 1945, Researched and Written for the Gila River Indian Community, Sacaton, Arizona, 1998 (revised July 1999) Report No. 77, Las Cruces, New Mexico, p. 137 Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine

[War_of_the_Rebellion-2] "The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Chapter LXII. Operations on the Pacific Coast. January 1, 1861 – June 30, 1865. Part I., Correspondence, pp. 1017–18, Distances from Los Angeles, Cal., eastward to Mesilla, NM Territory". Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved January 12, 2014.

[3] Table of distances from Texas Almanac, 1859, Book, ca. 1859; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123765/ accessed November 12, 2013), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association, Denton, Texas

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v t e Butterfield Overland Mail 3rd Division Stations
Swiveler's Mission Camp Filibusters Camp Antelope Peak Peterman's (Mohawk) Texas Hill Griswell's Flap-Jack Ranch Burke's Oatman's Flat Murderer's Grave Gila Ranch Desert Maricopa Wells Casa Blanca Socatoon Oneida Blue Water Picacho Pointer Mountain Tucson
Source: "List of Butterfield Overland Mail Stations "Itinerary of the Route"" (PDF). New York Times. October 14, 1858.