Re: [Az-Geocaching] Mohawks in Yuma?

Very interesting and good detective work, Ken! Thanks!
I was getting ready to email the school in Roll and see if anybody
knew.....
Trisha


Ken Henson wrote:

>
> > ...I've always associated the Mohawks with upstate New York, James
> > Fenimore Cooper and all that. Does anyone here know how the
"Mohawk
> > influence" came to Yuma County, Arizona? Barring that, anyone have
> any
> > suggestions as to how I might find out? Googling "Mohawk" and
> > "Arizona" wasn't much help.
> >
>
> Steve, hope this is what your were looking for?
>
> Mohawk El.: 545’ Loc.: Yuma
>
> In 1869 Mohawk was not the same place as Mission Camp. The later is
> thirty miles west northwest of Mohawk Station. The original stage
> station was also not the same as Mohawk on GLO 1903 (twenty-two
miles
> to the west southwest of Chrystoval).
>
> The original Mohawk Station was so named by men who created the
> Butterfield Overland stage route. Many came from New York State and
> brought place names from there to Arizona. As a stage station,
Mohawk
> vanished. The name came to be applied to the valley in which the
> stage
> station was first located. Long before this time, the name had
first
> been applied to Mohawk Gap lying between Texas Hill on the east and
> Antelope Hill on the west, now known as Mohawk Pass. This same
place
> shows a Mohawk on Smith Map 1879, the first map to use the name
Mohawk
> Range for the mountains bordering the western side of the valley.
> These mountains were known in the early days as the Big Horn
Mountain
> or Mohawk Peak.
>
> In the 1880’s the present Mohawk was established and the population
> was
> sufficient to require a post office. In 1956 Mohawk consisted of a
> section station on the railroad, a service station, a motel and a
> single residence. According to post office records, Chrystoval was
> changed to Mohawk as of September 30, 1905.
>
> The above was taken from: Arizona Place Names, Revised and enlarged
by
> Byrd H. Granger, The University of Arizona Press, 1960.


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