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Abandoned station in
Peach Springs
Arizona,
December,
2004, Kathy Weiser.
Some 12 miles west of the
Grand Canyon Caverns is
Peach Springs,
headquarters of the
Hualapai
Indian Reservation that encompasses more than a million acres,
including 108 miles of the
Colorado
River and the
Grand
Canyon. The "People of
the Tall Pine have been occupying these lands for more than 1,400
years.
In the early 1880s, the railroad
established a water station on these lands and called it
Peach Springs,
for the many peach trees found around the spring that fed their steam
engines. Soon the small settlement reportedly had ten
saloons
but no churches or schools. Later it would also boast a roundhouse,
several shops, a stagecoach line, and a Fred Harvey Restaurant.
When
Route 66
came through,
Peach Springs
offered several cafes, motor courts and tourist businesses to the many
travelers of the road. Though little is left of
Route 66
era landmarks,
Peach Springs
provides access to one of the last undeveloped sections of the
Grand
Canyon.
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