[Az-Geocaching] Mohawks in Yuma?

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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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