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    • Snowflake, Navajo County

    • Snowflake, Navajo County

    • Unknown

    • Arizona -- History -- To 1912; Postal service -- Arizona – History; Postmarks – Arizona; Cancellations (Philately) – Arizona; Covers (Philately) – Arizona; Postal stationery; Post office buildings -- Arizona

    • Cancelled postcard mailed from Snowflake, Ariz., August 19, 1906. A transit cancel from Holbrook, Ariz. also appears. James Stinson, a rancher, sold property in July 1878 to William Flake. Erastus Snow and twelve destitute families arrived from a...
    • Solomonville, Graham County

    • Solomonville, Graham County

    • Unknown

    • Arizona -- History -- To 1912; Postal service -- Arizona – History; Postmarks – Arizona; Cancellations (Philately) – Arizona; Covers (Philately) – Arizona; Postal stationery

    • 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 bought Munson's buildings and added to...
    • Somerton, Yuma County

    • Somerton, Yuma County

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    • Arizona -- History -- To 1912; Postal service -- Arizona – History; Postmarks – Arizona; Cancellations (Philately) – Arizona; Covers (Philately) – Arizona; Postal stationery

    • Cancelled postal card mailed from Somerton, Ariz., August 24, 1903. The post office was established on December 23, 1898, with Minnie E. Case as postmaster.
    • Springerville, Apache County

    • Springerville, Apache County

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    • Arizona -- History -- To 1912; Postal service -- Arizona – History; Postmarks – Arizona; Cancellations (Philately) – Arizona; Covers (Philately) – Arizona; Postal stationery; Post office buildings -- Arizona

    • 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 broke. The Becker Brothers, pioneer merchants...
    • Strawberry, Gila County

    • Strawberry, Gila County

    • Unknown

    • Arizona -- History -- To 1912; Postal service -- Arizona – History; Postmarks – Arizona; Cancellations (Philately) – Arizona; Covers (Philately) – Arizona; Postal stationery

    • 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 community of Strawberry learned that the area...
    • Tempe, Maricopa County

    • Tempe, Maricopa County

    • Unknown

    • Arizona -- History -- To 1912; Postal service -- Arizona – History; Postmarks – Arizona; Cancellations (Philately) – Arizona; Covers (Philately) – Arizona; Postal stationery; Post office buildings -- Arizona

    • Cancelled envelope mailed from Tempe, Ariz., November 1, 1898. In 1871, Charles Trumbull Hayden , left Tucson where he lived since his arrival in 1857 on the first Butterfield Overland Mail coach. He moved to the site of the future Tempe where he...
    • Thatcher, Graham County

    • Thatcher, Graham County

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    • Arizona -- History -- To 1912; Postal service -- Arizona – History; Postmarks – Arizona; Cancellations (Philately) – Arizona; Covers (Philately) – Arizona; Postal stationery; Post office buildings -- Arizona

    • 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 on a town site on higher land and bought it on...
    • Tonto, Gila County

    • Tonto, Gila County

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    • Arizona -- History -- To 1912; Postal service -- Arizona – History; Postmarks – Arizona; Cancellations (Philately) – Arizona; Covers (Philately) – Arizona; Postal stationery

    • 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 the Cross-7 Cattle Company. The post office...
    • Tuba, Coconino County

    • Tuba, Coconino County

    • Unknown

    • Arizona -- History -- To 1912; Postal service -- Arizona – History; Postmarks – Arizona; Cancellations (Philately) – Arizona; Covers (Philately) – Arizona; Postcards -- Arizona

    • Cancelled postal card mailed from Tuba, Ariz., 1910. The post office was established as Tuba City in 1884, but the name was changed to "Tuba" in 1894.
    • Tucson, Pima County

    • Tucson, Pima County

    • Unknown

    • Arizona -- History -- To 1912; Postal service -- Arizona – History; Postmarks – Arizona; Cancellations (Philately) – Arizona; Covers (Philately) – Arizona; Postal stationery

    • Cancelled postal stationery entire mailed from Tucson, Ariz., August 30, 1890. Street cars drawn by mules, when the mules felt like it, were still in use in Tucson in 1901. Note the name “Meyer Street 3” on the front of the Car.
    • Tucson, Pima County

    • Tucson, Pima County

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    • Arizona -- History -- To 1912; Postal service -- Arizona – History; Postmarks – Arizona; Cancellations (Philately) – Arizona; Covers (Philately) – Arizona; Postal stationery; Post office buildings -- Arizona

    • Cancelled postal stationery entire mailed from Tucson, Ariz., June 23, 1881. Electric streetcars began operating in Tucson on June 1, 1906 as a replacement for the horse and mule drawn streetcars. For over twenty-four years electric streetcars...
    • Washington, Santa Cruz County

    • Washington, Santa Cruz County

    • Unknown

    • Arizona -- History -- To 1912; Postal service -- Arizona – History; Postmarks – Arizona; Cancellations (Philately) – Arizona; Covers (Philately) – Arizona; Postal stationery

    • Cancelled postal stationery entire with added adhesive stamps mailed from Washington, Ariz., December 15, 1896. A post office was established on May 13, 1880 and later changed to Duquesne, but discontinued in 1920.
    • Wellton, Yuma County

    • Wellton, Yuma County

    • Unknown

    • Arizona -- History -- To 1912; Postal service -- Arizona – History; Postmarks – Arizona; Cancellations (Philately) – Arizona; Covers (Philately) – Arizona; Postal stationery

    • Cancelled postal stationery entire mailed from Wellton, Ariz., October 12, 1907. When the railroad came through the region, wells were needed to supply trains with water. Several deep wells were sunk, hence the name, Wellton. On the Gila River,...
    • White River, Navajo County

    • White River, Navajo County

    • Unknown

    • Arizona -- History -- To 1912; Postal service -- Arizona – History; Postmarks – Arizona; Cancellations (Philately) – Arizona; Covers (Philately) – Arizona; Postal stationery

    • Cancelled envelope mailed from White River, Ariz., November 11, 1904. An early name for the White River was the Sierra Blanca River. The settlement is the current headquarters for the Apache Indian Reservation on the north fork of the White...
    • Young, Gila County

    • Young, Gila County

    • Unknown

    • Arizona -- History -- To 1912; Postal service -- Arizona – History; Postmarks – Arizona; Cancellations (Philately) – Arizona; Covers (Philately) – Arizona; Postal stationery

    • Cancelled postal stationery entire mailed from Young, Ariz., February 20, 1909. The post office was established on June 25, 1890 and was named "Young" after the family of the first postmistress, Miss Ola Young, daughter of Silas Young, an early...
    • Yuma, Yuma County

    • Yuma, Yuma County

    • Unknown

    • Arizona -- History -- To 1912; Postal service -- Arizona – History; Postmarks – Arizona; Cancellations (Philately) – Arizona; Covers (Philately) – Arizona; Postal stationery

    • Cancelled postal stationery entire mailed from Yuma, A.T., in October. No year is included in the cancel but it probably is from the 1880s, and the date is not legible. Known both as Arizona and Colorado City under the New Mexico Territory and...

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