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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1ZII_smiths-station_Albany-TX.html
From 1858 until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, a station of the Butterfield Overland Mail route was located here. Despite a brief existence, it was an important stop on the early stage line that reached from Missouri to California. Stages made the t…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM28S5_butterfield-stage-line_Jacksboro-TX.html
Here ran the Southern Overland
Mail Line connecting St. Louis and
San Francisco with semi-weekly
stage and mail service, 1858-1861
The length of the route, 2,795
miles, and the superior service
maintained made this a pioneer
enterprise of first magni…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM29B5_historical-site_Los-Angeles-CA.html
This block is the site of:
First brick school house in Los Angeles
known as School No. 1, built 1854-1855
Butterfield Overland Mail Company office
and corral 1858-1861
Office of U.S. Quartermaster 1861
Corral for camels from Fort Tejon 1861
and
Lo…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2AYC_speedy-delivery_St.-Louis-MO.html
Today you can get a package from St. Louis to California in less than 24 hours. But before planes and trains, speedy deliveries to the West went by stagecoach.
Henry Wells, William Fargo, and John Butterfield capitalized on the country's rapid westward ex…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2CYR_lopez-station_Los-Angeles-CA.html
Lopez Station. . Near this site of the Los Angeles Dam and reservoir were located a Butterfield Stage station, 1861 - 1874; San Fernando Valley's first English-speaking school, 1860 - 1883; and its first post office, 1869 - 1874.
var plai…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2JUF_fort-richardson_-.html
Fort Richardson. . Established November 26, 1867 by the United States Army to defend the frontier against the Indians. A mail station on the Butterfield Overland Stage Line 1858-1861. Abandoned as a military post May 23, 1878.
va…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2LQ8_butterfield-overland-mail-in-missouri_-.html
Butterfield Overland Mail in Missouri. Warsaw, in Benton County, 55 miles from the Tipton Terminus, was a relay and meal station. Accommodations were provided by the Lemon, later Campbell House, and Nichols Tavern. Its building still stands.
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