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Fort Cummings place

born: [1891-01-01,1892-01-01)died/dissolved: [1891-01-01,1892-01-01)🌐 Q5471002id: p_fort-cummings_1154ce

also known as: Fort Cummings, Cummings

Probable 70%Lost place
Summary:  Fort Cummings, also known as Cummings, is a place with two sources but no documented historical claims.
Completeness: 75/100 Grade B
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Claims (3)

departed_for

cited from The Mimbres river derives its name from… (1891)
um- mings, had a store at the crossing, but having no customers, he moved up to Silver City with his goods, the remnant of a large stock. The place was for a long time unoccupied on account of its supposed insalubrity, and was finally taken…

lived_at

Cook's Canyon road
cited from individual known as Captain Stout… (1891)
City acquaintances, and among others an ( 61 ) individual known as Captain Stout. The captain did not disturb the buck-board or its passengers, but might have done so, as he was afterwards identified in Arizona as a famous road agent, and w…

owned

store at the crossing
cited from The Mimbres river derives its name from… (1891)
um- mings, had a store at the crossing, but having no customers, he moved up to Silver City with his goods, the remnant of a large stock. The place was for a long time unoccupied on account of its supposed insalubrity, and was finally taken…

Mentioned by (5)

Butterfield Overland Trail has_part Fort Cummings
Carpenter-Stanley Cattle Company lived_at Fort Cummings
R. V. Newsham worked_for Fort Cummings
R. V. Newsham worked_for Fort Cummings
R. V. Newsham worked_for Fort Cummings

Sources (2)

individual known as Captain Stout…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain · details

The Mimbres river derives its name from…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain · details

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