Cordes, Arizona
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Not to be confused with Cordes Junction, the site of Cordes, Arizona, a ghost town, is eight miles southeast of Mayer. Cordes was established in 1883 by John Henry Cordes.
The town was originally destined to be called Antelope Junction, however, Cordes' application for a post office in that name was denied in 1883. The reason was that there was already an Antelope Station in Arizona. That town is now called Stanton. The second name Cordes' chose, his own, for the town was granted.
The Cordes post office closed in 1944 and the town was abandoned in the 1950s.
[edit] References
- Philip Varney, Arizona Ghost Towns and Mining Towns: A travel guide to history, Phoenix, Arizona Highways Books, 1988, 117 pages.
