Mission Camp is a historic locale, site of a later

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stagecoach station, located about west of Wellton on the south bank of the Gila River, in

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. It was located miles east of

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, west of the original Butterfield stage station at Filibusters Camp, and west of Antelope Peak Station, a later station that with Mission Camp Station replaced Filibusters Camp Station. In 1862, during the

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, the

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garrisoned a post at the stage station with California Volunteers. It was located about east of Yuma. After stagecoach travel resumed in the late 1860s Mission Camp became a stagecoach station once again until 1879 when the Southern Pacific Railroad came into Arizona through Yuma, making it obsolete.

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