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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 8, 2015
Caption: Virginia Dale Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (top left) After the stage station's closure, ranchers settled the surrounding hills and valleys. The Virginia Dale post office and store - shown here in the 1940s - served the community as well as travelers on U.S. 287.; (bottom left) Visitors pose in front of the Virginia Dale stage station in 1939. A local community club stabilized and preserved the structure in the 1990s.; (Upper right) Famed photographer William Henry Jackson visited the Virginia Dale Stage Station in 1870 and later made this watercolor from a photo. Though images of the stage station have survived, no definitive photos of Jack Slade are known to exist.
Submitted: October 14, 2015, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p333569
File Size: 3.524 Megabytes

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