Elevation 1,400 feet. Station, 19 miles from Picacho, on Phoenix and Wellton Branch S.P.R.R. After President Calvin Coolidge. "Town established 1926, in the center of the area to be irrigated by waters impounded by the Coolidge Dam." Post office established June 14, 1926, Mrs Dora H. Nutt, Post Master. "Cooldige came into existence when Coolidge Dam was constructed, that fact making water available for irrigation. Both it and the dam were named for President Calvin Coolidge. The name was suggested by Richard J. Jones because President Coolidge's signature in 1924 had made the dam possible."
On the way to our destination we took several pictures in southern New Mexico as well as Arizona.
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