Soldiers Farewell Stage Station[2] 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,[3] 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.[4]

Soldiers Farewell Stage Station
Locale
Nickname(s):  Soldier's Farewell
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Coordinates: 32°21′24″N 108°22′9″W
Country	United States
State	New Mexico
County	Grant County
Elevation	5,144 ft (1,568 m)
Time zone	UTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-6 (MDT)
GNIS feature ID	894993[1]

References

External links

• Street Scale map from TopoQuest (accessed July 6, 2008).
• Soldiers Farewell Stage Station, New Mexico (Locale)

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