12/8/2023 0 Comments Pony expresso oregonstages stopped atCold Water, located between Plum Creek and Cottonwood Springs. Sources generally agree on itsidentity as a Pony Express and stage station, although opinions varyabout its function as a relay or home station. The Cold Water Ranch/Midway Station site is possiblylocated three miles south of Gothenburg. COLD WATER RANCH/MIDWAY STATION: NR, 10/15/69 (number not available) As late as 1960, a 1938 plaqueidentified the cabin's role in the history of the Pony Express. 77purchased the station's original log cabin and moved the building toCozad's park for Boy Scout activities. The Dawson County American Legion Post No. In 1866 the station's structures included an adobehouse, stables, and a frame store. Freeman conducted ranch operationsafter Mullaly. Some sourcesassociate Pat Mullaly's Ranch with Willow Island Ranch or Station. Sources generally agree on its identity as the Willow Islandan/or Willow Bend Station. The Willow Island or Willow Bend Station site is mostlikely in Dawson County, Nebraska, approximately six miles southeast ofCozad. A small cemetery near the station contains the graves ofvictims of an 1864 or 1865 Indian attack. Sometime after August 1867 the station was burned andabandoned. Indian attacks on wagon trains and stagecoaches between 1864and 1867 led to the establishment of a small garrison of troops at PlumCreek Station. Later the station's log structureshoused a Pony Express station and stage stop, and even later a telegraphstation. listed Plum Creek as a stop on its route. Sources generally agree on its identity andlocation as a relay station. This site is likely about ten miles southeast ofLexington, Nebraska. Nevertheless, in 1865, the station was evidently destroyed by fire. Franzwa places Garden station betweenCraig/Shakespear and Seventeen Mile Stations but notes that the Gardenand Craig Stations could be the same. The 1861Overland Mail Company contract listed the station as Garden. Sources give the site several different names,including Garden, Shakespear's, Sydenham's Ranche, Biddleman's Ranch,and Platte Stage Station. Mattes later lists the site as sixmiles southeast of Elm Creek. Mattes and Henderson place the station in Phelps County, aboutsix miles southwest of Elm Creek. The exact identity and location of this site remainsunknown. Franzwalisted Seventeen Mile as a separate station west of Platte, but notesthat historical sources also called it Platte Station. In 1960, Merrill Mattes and Paul Henderson suggestedthat Seventeen Mile Relay Station was possibly the same station site asPlatt's. Nevertheless, many sources generally name this siteas Platte or Platt's, located about five miles southeast of Odessa, probably because the station is listed as"Platt's" in the 1861 mail contract, andbecause the Holladay Stage Line stopped at Platte later on. It should also benoted that Merrill Mattes also proposed McClain's and Russell's Ranch asthe site mentioned by traveler Richard Burton in his 1860 account. Burton crossed the Great Plains andpassed through this station, his stagecoach exchanged animals atSeventeen Mile Station. In 1860, when thenoted English traveller Richard F. When the Central Overland California & Pike's PeakExpress Company assumed control of these stations and started the PonyExpress, it is likely that they made the Seventeen Mile Station a relaystation on the route. Express Co.) established a stagecoach station atSeventeen Mile Station to serve as the first stop for passengers afterFort Kearney. In 1859, the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak ExpressCompany (L. DIVISION TWO: STATIONSBETWEEN FORT KEARNEY AND HORSESHOE CREEK (continued)
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