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Jaeger City, California

Coordinates:32°43′52″N114°37′47″W / 32.73111°N 114.62972°W /32.73111; -114.62972
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Jaeger City, orJaegerville, was a former settlement in what is nowImperial County, California, atJaeger's Ferry on theColorado River a mile downstream fromFort Yuma. It was named forL. J. F. Jaeger who ran the ferry there from 1851.

History

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Jaeger City, then inSan Diego County, California, was the first and largest settlement near the fort until 1862. It began as astockade for defense of the ferry and its operators against theQuechan, and a collection of tents. It was a station of theSan Antonio-San Diego Mail Line from 1857 to 1860. At its height it consisted of theFort Yuma Station of theButterfield Overland Mail and its local office, a hotel, two blacksmiths, two stores and other dwellings.Colorado City begun in 1853 lay across the river andArizona City lay a mile above it across from Fort Yuma.[1]: 15 [2]

Jaeger City was destroyed, along with Colorado City across the river, in theGreat Flood of 1862. Jaeger City was never rebuilt. Jaeger's Ferry was rebuilt and Colorado City also, on higher ground as part ofArizona City, later renamedYuma, Arizona, in 1873, and the ferry relocated there across from the fort.[1][3]

The site today

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The site is located southeast ofWinterhaven, California. All trace of the settlement has been washed away by the flooding of the river since 1862.

See also

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References

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  1. ^abRichard E. Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978Archived 2016-01-18 at theWayback Machine
  2. ^Hargett, Janet L. (1983)."Pioneering at Yuma Crossing the Business Career of L. J. F. Jaeger 1850-1887".Arizona and the West.25 (4):329–354.JSTOR 40169258.
  3. ^Thomas Edwin Farish, History of Arizona, Volume I. The Filmer Brothers Electrotype Company, San Francisco, 1915. pp. 252-253

32°43′52″N114°37′47″W / 32.73111°N 114.62972°W /32.73111; -114.62972

Municipalities and communities ofImperial County, California,United States
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Footnotes
‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
Butterfield Overland Mail 2nd Division Stations

Source:"List of Butterfield Overland Mail Stations "Itinerary of the Route""(PDF). New York Times. October 14, 1858.

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