El Dorado (Mud Springs) - El Dorado, CA
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saopaulo1
N 38° 40.949 W 120° 50.930
10S E 687112 N 4283737
An ECV plaque in El Dorado, CA.
Waymark Code: WM989G
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/12/2010
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"Trading post, emigrant stop, and mining camp of the 1850’s. This became one of the remount stations of the Central Overland Pony Express. Here at the Nevada House on April 13, 1860, pony rider William (Sam) Hamilton changed horses while carrying the first west-bound mail of the Pony Express from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California."
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