Sacaton (village)
Sacaton, Arizona | |
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Coordinates: 33°4′N 111°44′W / 33.067°N 111.733°W |
Sacaton or Socatoon was a village of the Maricopa people, established above the Pima Villages, (now the Gila River Indian Community) after the June 1, 1857, in the Battle of Pima Butte where it appears a few months later in the 1857 Chapman Census. Sacaton village lay on the Gila River, 3.75 miles west of modern Sacaton.
The 1858-1861 Socatoon Station of the Butterfield Overland Mail located four miles east of the village took its name from this village.[1]
References
- ^ John P. Wilson, Peoples of the Middle Gila: A Documentary History of the Pimas and Maricopas, 1500s - 1945, Researched and Written for the Gila River Indian Community, Sacaton, Arizona, 1998 (revised July 1999) Report No. 77, Las Cruces, New Mexico, p.137 Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine