Fort Worth-Yuma Mail - Texas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

Index Entry: Fort Worth-Yuma Mail (Star Post Route No. 31454)
Address: Spur 520 & IH 820
City: Fort Worth
County: Tarrant
Subject Codes: PO; RD;
Year Marker Erected: 1976
Marker Location: Spur 580, 1/8 mi east of Mary's Creek Bridge or 1 1/10 mi west of intersection of Spur 580 & IH 820, Fort Worth.
Marker Size: 18" x 28"
Repairs Completed: refinish

Marker Number: 2038 Marker Text: (Star Post Route No. 31454) By the 1870s remote areas of the frontier not served by the railroads needed mail delivery routes. In response the U.S. Post Office Department, in 1873, began establishing Star Post Routes. On Aug. 15, 1878, Star Route No. 31454 was opened between Fort Worth and Yuma, Arizona Terr., under contract to J.T. Chidester. Stagecoaches carried the mail along much the same route used by the Butterfield Overland Mail in the late 1850s. Fort Worth to Yuma mail was discontinued after completion of the southern transcontinental railroad in 1881. (1976)

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