However the locality remained in use as a watering place for travelers on the Southern Emigrant Trail and was a post for Union Army units moving back and forth between California and Arizona Territory.
In the journal of an 1861 march of California Volunteers to Fort Yuma, Lieut.
[2]The Seven Wells Station was in use again by stagecoach lines from 1867 until 1877 when the Southern Pacific Railroad reached Fort Yuma.
Today the location of the Seven Wells site is about a mile southwest of the modern town of Bórquez Norte, Baja California.
[1] Source: "List of Butterfield Overland Mail Stations "Itinerary of the Route"" (PDF).