Sacaton Stage Station near the Pima Villages, Arizona, in 1876

Socatoon Station, was a stagecoach station of the

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between 1858 and 1861. It was located four miles east of Sacaton at a

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village from which it took its name. This station was located 22 miles east of Maricopa Wells Station and 11 miles east of Casa Blanca Station and 13 miles north of Oneida Station. 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
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at the first camp on the Gila River after crossing the desert from

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. It was a stopping place for the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line in 1857–58 before becoming the site of a Butterfield station. 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 After the Civil War, it was again used as a stage station by other stage lines.

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