Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Coach Car-S.P. X7

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Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Coach Car--S.P. X7

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Location 201 N. 4th Ave., Yuma, Arizona
Coordinates 32°43′40″N114°37′19″W / 32.72778°N 114.62194°W / 32.72778; -114.62194 Coordinates: 32°43′40″N114°37′19″W / 32.72778°N 114.62194°W / 32.72778; -114.62194
Built 1875
Architect Southern Pacific Railroad Shops
Architectural style SPRR passenger car
NRHP reference # 00000101 [1]
Added to NRHP March 02, 2000

Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Coach Car-S.P. X7 dates from c. 1875 and was used until 1938. It is a former passenger coach of the Southern Pacific Railroad's Southern Division. The railway vehicle was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, at which time it was located in Yuma, Arizona. [1] [2]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

Yuma, Arizona City in Arizona, United States

Yuma is a city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The city's population was 93,064 at the 2010 census, up from the 2000 census population of 77,515.

It is a representative example of the type of passenger coach car used when the Southern Pacific Railway entered Arizona, in September 1877, at Yuma Crossing. [2]

Yuma Crossing

Yuma Crossing is a site in Arizona and California that is significant for its association with transportation and communication across the Colorado River. It connected New Spain and Las Californias in the Spanish Colonial period in and also during the Western expansion of the United States. Features of the Arizona side include the Yuma Quartermaster Depot and Yuma Territorial Prison. Features on the California Side include Fort Yuma, which protected the area from 1850 to 1885.

A historic photo documents Geronimo beside a similar coach car in Texas in 1886. [2]

Geronimo leader of the Bedonkohe Apache

Geronimo was a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Apache tribe. From 1850 to 1886 Geronimo joined with members of three other Chiricahua Apache bands—the Tchihende, the Tsokanende and the Nednhi—to carry out numerous raids as well as resistance to US and Mexican military campaigns in the northern Mexico states of Chihuahua and Sonora, and in the southwestern American territories of New Mexico and Arizona. Geronimo's raids and related combat actions were a part of the prolonged period of the Apache–United States conflict, which started with American settlement in Apache lands following the end of the war with Mexico in 1848.

See also

Southern Pacific Railroad Depot (Yuma, Arizona)

The Southern Pacific Railroad Depot in Yuma, Arizona, was built as a Spanish Colonial Revival-style station by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1926.

Southern Pacific Freight Depot (Yuma, Arizona)

Southern Pacific Freight Depot in Yuma, Arizona was built in 1891, built with redwood shiplap and in the wooden Stick—Eastlake architectural motifs of the Victorian Queen Anne Style.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Yuma County, Arizona Wikimedia list article

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Yuma County, Arizona. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.

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