Bijou Creek swing station

Name: Bijou Creek swing station
Address: CO, US

Post offices and stage stationsHistoric or vanishedElbert County

What we know

Stage station on the Smoky Hill South route (Place Names of Colorado); Scott's Butterfield Overland Despatch route of 1865 ends here.

Where it was

'Bijou Creek Swing Station': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet (good to a few hundred feet). Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 11, T9S R62W, 'Stage station on Smoky Hill South stage route. 11 OR 18 mi SE of Kiowa?'; this point is 0.39 mile from that section's center.

Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source.

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Sources

Sources are named in the text above. Numbers such as S-0080 refer to our source list. Most newspaper quotations were read in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Long quotations from recent books are shortened here.

Know more about Bijou Creek swing station?

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