Oatman Flat Station, later Fourr's Stage Station, was a stagecoach station of the Butterfield Overland Mail located along the Gila River in Maricopa County, Arizona. The site was located 20 miles (32 km) east of Flap-Jack Ranch and 20 miles (32 km) west of Murderer's Grave Station,[2] near the Gila River at Oatman Flat.[1] It is to the east of the Oatman Grave (33°00′16″N 113°09′21″W / 33.00444°N 113.15583°W), where the family of Olive Oatman was buried following their massacre on the Southern Emigrant Trail by Yavapai in 1851.[3]
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- Ruins of Oatman Flat Stage Station, Oatman, AZ, c. 1910, from Sharlot Hall Museum Transportation Image Collection; Sharlot Hall Museum Transportation Collection Archived 2018-11-19 at the Wayback Machine (actually the Fourr's Stage Station second to be built at the flat.)
- Graves Along the Butterfield Trail In Arizona – Why are they disappearing? Posted by Gerald T. Ahnert on April 4, 2013 at 7:22am in The Bucket. See 1970 photo of the ruin of the Fourr's Stage Station and includes the site of the Fourr family graves and nearby location of the original Oatman Flat Station.
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