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The Butterfield Overland Mail Route Segment is a stretch of historic roadway in
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and Crawford counties in northwestern
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. It consists of more than of adjoining sections of Bugscuffle and Old Cove City Roads that were once part of the major north–south route between
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and Van Buren, which are documented to have existed since 1839. The roadway is still a dirt road, about wide. It was historically used by the
Butterfield Overland Mail Butterfield Overland Mail (officially Overland Mail Company)Waterman L. Ormsby, edited by Lyle H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum, "The Butterfield Overland Mail", The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1991. was a stagecoach service in ...
service between 1858 and 1861. The roadway segment was listed on the
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in 2010.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Arkansas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington Cou ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Crawford County, Arkansas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Crawford County, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Crawford County, ...


References

Roads on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Transportation in Washington County, Arkansas Transportation in Crawford County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Crawford County, Arkansas Butterfield Overland Mail in Arkansas {{CrawfordCountyAR-NRHP-stub