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American Flag Ranch and Acadia Ranch - The Story of Oracle's Post Offices
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    • Acadia around 1908

    • Acadia around 1908

    • 1908 ca.

    • Ranch houses--Arizona

    • Looking at the Acadia Ranch from across the street. Tent house to right of the main building. Edwin S. Dodge, Oracle's second postmaster, moved to Oracle in 1880 and called his ranch "Acadia" after his home in Nova Scotia. Acadia Ranch housed the...
    • Barber postmaster

    • 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.
    • Behind Oracle Post Office and General Merchandise store, 1909

    • 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...
    • Dad's Tent (John W. Lawson)

    • 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, 7-1908

    • 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.

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