Thatcher, Graham County
Cancelled postal card mailed from Thatcher, Ariz., December 31, 1909. In 1881, John Moody bought the Conley Ranch and the following year was joined by four Mormon families. Christopher Layton decided...
View ArticleSolomonville, Graham County
Cancelled postal card mailed from Solomonville, Ariz., February 4, 1890. The town was first called Munsonville, when William Munson built an adobe house and store here in 1873. In 1876 Isadore Solomon...
View ArticleSafford, Graham County
Cancelled envelope mailed from Safford, Arizona, July 12, 1881. A group of farmers found the first American Colony in the Gila Valley in 1874. They settled the site of Safford, naming it for Gov. Anson...
View ArticleKlondyke, Graham County
Cancelled envelope mailed from Klondyke, Ariz., July 16, 1909. Prospectors returning from Alaska settled at this point and named it to commemorate their experiences in the Klondike. The post office was...
View ArticleGeronimo, Graham County
Cancelled postal stationery entire mailed from Geronimo, Ariz., September 5, 1909. This community on the Arizona Eastern Railroad was named for Geronimo who led Apache warriors in fights against the...
View ArticleFort Thomas, Graham County
Cancelled postal stationery entire mailed from Fort Thomas, Ariz., October 5, 1896. The name Camp Thomas derives from that of Brig. Fen. Lorenzo Thomas. The name was changed to Fort Apache in 1871 and...
View ArticleTonto, Gila County
Cancelled postal stationery entire mailed from Tonto, Gila Co, Arizona, December 4, 1885. The post office at Tonto was established on the Howell Ranch at the foot of a trail called Jump-off. It served...
View ArticleStrawberry, Gila County
Cancelled envelope mailed from Strawberry, AT (Arizona Territory). February 2, 1889. The stamps are pen cancelled, and the post office name and date are handwritten. In 1886, the first settlers in the...
View ArticleSan Carlos, Gila County
Cancelled postal stationery entire used on Dec 30 in San Carlos, Ariz. There is no year date in the cancel. San Carlos Indian Reservation was established on Nov. 9, 1871 and suffered a reduction in...
View ArticleRoosevelt, Gila County
Cancelled postal stationery entire mailed from Roosevelt, Ariz., July 15, 1909. This location was originally the post office for the construction crew of the Roosevelt dam. When water covered the...
View ArticleFlagstaff, Coconino County
Cancelled postal card mailed from Flagstaff, Ariz. on January 18, 1889, although the cancel date is not completely legible. F.F. McMillian arrived in 1876 and built a corral and shack near the present...
View ArticleFort Huachuca, Cochise County
Cancelled postal card mailed from Fort Huachuca. Ariz., December 19, 1909. Originally established as a military post under the name of Camp Huachuca. This last specimen of an Arizona territorial...
View ArticleDragoon, Cochise County
Cancelled envelope mailed from Dragoon, Arizona, April 19, 1882. The post office was established on June 20, 1881. This is the earliest known cover bearing a Dragoon postmark, although the post office...
View ArticleCourtland, Cochise County
Cancelled postal card mailed from Courtland, Ariz., November 3, 1909. Courtland Young was one of the owners of the Great Western Mining Company established in 1909, by his brother, W. J. Young. The...
View ArticleBenson, Cochise County
Cancelled stamp on an envelope dated in Benson, Ariz., April 22, 1895, addressed in Chinese and English to Los Angeles, Cal. Benson was a stagecoach station in the early days. In March 1871 a...
View ArticleCochise, Cochise County
Cancelled postal card mailed from Cochise, Ariz., January 25, 1912. The settlement of Cochise was established around 1886 and named for the Chiricahua Apache Chief. The post office, established in...
View ArticleBisbee, Cochise County
Cancelled postal stationery entire with a Bisbee, Ariz., flag cancel dated November 14, 1904. The letter was addressed to Willcox, Ariz. In 1880 a small eastern mining firm known as Phelps Dodge and...
View ArticleSpringerville, Apache County
Cancelled postal card mailed from Springerville, Ariz., August 28, 1909. Merchant Harry Springer set up a store here in 1875. He sold to and trusted outlaws with seed and feed on credit and soon went...
View ArticleNutrioso, Apache County
Cancelled postal stationery entire mailed from Nutrioso, Ariz., September 24, 1894. The name Nutrioso so named because early settlers killed a beaver, (Spanish word “Nurtia”) and a bear, (Spanish word...
View ArticleAdamana, Apache County
Cancelled postal card mailed from Adamana, Ariz., March 31, 1909. Adamana is a contraction of the name "Adam Hanna", who with Jim Cart, raised cattle in the area. A post office was located at the ranch...
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