Soldier's Farewell Stage Station


'Soldiers Farewell Stage Station was a stagecoach stop of the 1858-1861 Butterfield Overland Mail route before the company moved to the central route. West of "Soldiers Farewell Hill" on the west bank of a drainage arroyo, the stop was on the Butterfield Overland Mail route in Grant County, New Mexico. According to the Overland Mail Company Through Time Schedule, it was 150 miles west of El Paso, Texas and 184½ miles east of Tucson, Arizona. Located 42 miles east of Stein's Peak Station and 14 miles southwest of Ojo de Vaca Station.