Socatoon Station was a stagecoach station of the

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between 1858 and 1861. It was located east of

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at a

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village from which it took its name. This station was located east of Maricopa Wells Station, east of Casa Blanca Station and north of

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. The location of the station was on the route of the

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at the first camp on the Gila River after crossing the desert from

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. It was a stopping place for the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line in 1857–58 before becoming the site of a Butterfield station. Table of distances from Texas Almanac, 1859
Book, ca. 1859; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123765/ accessed November 12, 2013), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association, Denton, Texas After the Civil War, it was again used as a stage station by other stage lines.

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