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NO. 707 STRAWBERRY VALLEY HOUSE-OVERLAND PONY EXPRESS ROUTE IN CALIFORNIA - This popular resort and stopping place for stages and teams of the Comstock, established by Swift and Watson in 1856, became a remount station of the Central Overland Pony Express. Here on April 4, 1860, Division Superintendent Bolivar Roberts waited with a string of mules to help pony rider Warren Upson through the snowstorm on Echo Summit.
Location
Highway 50 (PM 57.8), 8.7 mi E of Kyburz
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Notes
The marker is about 400 ft SW of the Strawberry Station General Store located at17481 US-50, Twin Bridges, CA 95720
NO. 707 STRAWBERRY VALLEY HOUSE-OVERLAND PONY EXPRESS, Marker
NO. 707 STRAWBERRY VALLEY HOUSE-OVERLAND PONY EXPRESS
NO. 707 STRAWBERRY VALLEY HOUSE-OVERLAND PONY EXPRESS, State Plaque
NO. 707 STRAWBERRY VALLEY HOUSE-OVERLAND PONY EXPRESS, General Store