In Search of the Pony Express - POLE CREEK STATION - Pony Express Monuments on Waymarking.com

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In search of the Pony Express
Station Marker

Dedicated May 8, 1994
POLE CREEK STATION
Original Station
Apr 3, 1860 - Nov 20, 1861
by
James Stretesky
Maral V. Kuechler
Sidney/Cheyenne County
Economic Development
Sterling Monument Company
Pony Express Trail Association

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In the fall of 1859 a new route from the South Platte to the North Platte River for the Oregon-California Trail followed Lodgepole Creek to here and then went north. The 1860-1861 Pony Express also went this way.

The "Pole Creek" Station was just south of here on the North Bank of Lodgepole Creek. It was reported that the station's mud walls were papered with magazine and newspaper pages of the day.

Starting in July of 1861 the Overland Stagecoach Service and the Transcontinental Telegraph line both followed this same transportation route. The completion of the telegraph line on October 24, 1861 soon put the Pony Express out of business.

In 1867 another new chapter in transportation passed this way heading west - the rails of the Union Pacific.

© 1994 Joe Nardone

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