BUTTERFIELD STAGE STOP 1 AR
N 36° 19.947 W 094° 06.963
15S E 399835 N 4021401
Butterfield Overland Mail in Benton County Arkansas
Waymark Code: WM262N
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 09/10/2007
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BUTTERFIELD OVERLAND MAIL IN ARKANSAS
To commemorate the Centennial passage,through Benton County of the First Westbound Stage coach on the Butterfield Overland Mail Route from St. Louis to San Francisco.
Callahan's Tavern,the sight of which is about a half a mile northeast of this spot,which was the First relay station where teams where changed after entering Arkansas from Missouri.
The stage arrived here about 7 o'clock on the morning of September 18,1858.
Now here I am 149 years later to mark the spot.
Erected by the Benton County Historical Society
Link to Marker: Not listed
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