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Soldier's Farewell Stage Station

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Country
  
United States

County
  
Grant County

GNIS feature ID
  
894993

State
  
New Mexico

Time zone
  
Mountain (MST) (UTC-7)

Elevation
  
1,568 m

Soldier's Farewell Stage Station

'Soldiers Farewell Stage Station was a stagecoach stop of the 1858-1861 Butterfield Overland Mail route before the company moved to the central route (former Pony Express route). West of "Soldiers Farewell Hill" on the west bank of a drainage arroyo, the stop was on the Butterfield Overland Mail route (1858-1861) in Grant County, New Mexico. According to the Overland Mail Company Through Time Schedule, it was 150 miles (33½ hours) west of El Paso, Texas and 184½ miles (41 hours) east of Tucson, Arizona. Located 42 miles east of Stein's Peak Station and 14 miles southwest of Ojo de Vaca Station.

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Soldier's Farewell Stage Station Wikipedia