American Flag Ranch and Acadia Ranch - The Story of Oracle's Post Offices

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- Buffalo Bill and friends in front of Acadia
- 1909-01-18
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917
- Buffalo Bill (William Cody) in front of Acadia cabins with Acadia owners, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur H. Winters (second and third from left). He purchased mining stock in Campo Bonito near Oracle.
- Buffalo Bill in car
- 1910-02-19
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917
- Buffalo Bill passing through Oracle. Also in car: William Neal, who built the Mountain View Hotel, Mrs. McWilliam, Mr. McWilliam standing in front with their child.
- Oracle Postmasters
- 1906
- Post Office Archives
- These four cards document the Postmasters of Oracle through the years.
- Acadia post office door
- 2010-11-05
- Post office buildings--Arizona
- Today, the Acadia Ranch is a museum and houses the Oracle Historical Society. The post office door remains inside, with a mail slot and service window.
- Mail sorter
- 2010-11-05
- Mail sorting
- Each cubbyhole in this mail sorter had been labeled with the name of a city or region. It is part of an exhibit at the Acadia Ranch Museum.
- Dad's Tent (John W. Lawson)
- 1911-09
- Postmasters--Arizona
- Postmaster John W. Lawson in front of his tent house. He was the postmaster in Oracle from 1911-1915, and again from 1926-1943. He bought out Thomas McCauley's share of the Oracle General Store and owned it in partnership with Leslie Terry.
- John W. Lawson with a wildcat or bobcat
- 1908-12
- Postmasters--Arizona
- Postmaster John W. Lawson on a burro in front of a tent house. Note dead bobcat hanging from saddle.
- Burro and wildcat
- 1908-12
- Postmasters--Arizona; Ranch life--Arizona--Pinal County
- Future Postmaster John W. Lawson (standing) and Larry Grant (sitting on porch) in front of Acadia cabin. Note the dead wildcat on the burro. This photograph was taken a few years before Lawson became postmaster in 1911.
- John W. Lawson, 7-1908
- 1908-07
- Postmasters--Arizona
- Postmaster John W. Lawson in a rocking chair on the front porch of a tent house. Both residents and visitors to Oracle lived in tent houses. Lawson's was one of the few that had a front porch.
- Snake-hunting postmaster
- 1909-04-17
- Postmasters--Arizona; Ranch life--Arizona--Pinal County
- Postmaster John W. Lawson (left) snake hunting. Note guns and long sticks.
- Nov. 1915 -- John Lawson
- 1915-11
- Postmasters--Arizona; Ranch life--Arizona--Pinal County
- John W. Lawson at campsite.
- Barber postmaster
- 1912
- Postmasters--Arizona
- John W. Lawson cutting Larry Grant's hair next to tent house. Mt. View Hotel in background. Early Oracle did not have a regular barber and thus friends often cut each other's hair.
- Coyote-hunting postmaster
- 1909-11-02
- Postmasters--Arizona; Ranch life--Arizona--Pinal County
- John W. Lawson. Note the dead coyote behind the saddle.
- Supply train in 1897
- 1897 ca.
- Freight and freightage--Arizona
- A supply train bound for Oracle from Benson around 1897. Adobe buildings visible in background.
- Early day freight trains, Oracle, Arizona
- No date
- Freight and freightage--Arizona
- A train of freight wagons loaded up in front of the Oracle Post Office and General Merchandise store.
- Driving freight into Oracle
- 1900 ca.
- Freight and freightage--Arizona
- Clarence Leaverton driving a freight wagon into Oracle, Arizona a few years after the turn of the century.
- Conestoga wagons
- No date
- Freight and freightage--Arizona
- A man loads up two Conestoga wagons pulled by a six-horse team in Oracle.
- Oracle Post Office and General Merchandise store, circa 1908
- 1908 ca.
- Post office buildings--Arizona; General stores--Arizona
- The Oracle Post Office and General Merchandise store in 1908 or 1909. The third postmaster, John Estill, moved to Oracle from Ohio for the benefit of the health of his arthritic wife. He built a small square building to store the merchandise that...
- Behind Oracle Post Office and General Merchandise store, 1909
- 1909-04-04
- Ranch life--Arizona--Pinal County
- This is a rear view of the Oracle Post Office and General Merchandise store. Corrals are in the foreground and tent houses stretch out to the right. In 1906 John Estil sold the store to Thomas V. McCauley, who served as Oracle's postmaster from...
- Oracle Post Office and General Merchandise store, circa 1910
- 1911 ca.
- Post office buildings--Arizona; General stores--Arizona
- Loaded burros waiting outside the Oracle Post Office and General Merchandise store.