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Fish Springs Station

18 Sunday Sep 2022

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Fish Springs Station

Pony Express – 1860-61
St. Joseph, Missouri – Sacramento, California
Also Overland Stage & Freight Route 1858-1868


This monument was constructed by enrollees, U. S. Grazing Division, C. C. C. Camp 116, Company 2529 on August 23, 1940 and sponsored by the Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association (#91 of their monuments) it was later adopted by the Sons of Utah Pioneers (#237 of their monuments) and rededicated in 2017.

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Central Overland Trail – Lookout Pass

09 Tuesday Aug 2022

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Central Overland Trail – Lookout Pass

“We struck the stage road in 5 miles. Good water here. Drove on to the summit of Point Lookout. Here we nooned and drove 1 miles farther to water and camped.”

Albert Jefferson Young, August 9, 1862

This location is the site of Utah Crossroads Chapter – OCTA’s historic marker #COTNU-3. (see other markers here)

GPS: N 40.11479 W 112.56595 (at Lookout Pass)

Central Overland Trail – Dugway Pass

22 Friday Jul 2022

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Central Overland Trail – Dugway Pass

“Course nearly southwest across desert to ‘Short Cut Pass’. Through this pass Chorpenning & Company, the mail contractors, have made a road, but it is so crooked and steep as to scarely permit our wagons to get up it.”

Capt. James H. Simpson, May 5, 1859

This location is the site of Utah Crossroads Chapter – OCTA’s historic marker #COTNU-8. (see other markers here)

GPS: N 39.85216 W 113.08584

Lookout Station

21 Thursday Jul 2022

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Lookout Station
Pony Express – 1860-61
St. Joseph, Missouri – Sacramento, California
Also Overland Stage & Freight Route 1858-1868

This monument was constructed at Lookout Pass by enrollees, U. S. Grazing Division, C. C. C. Camp G-154, Company 2517 on August 23, 1940 and sponsored by the Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association (#86 of their monuments) it was later adopted by the Sons of Utah Pioneers (#235 of their monuments) and rededicated in 2017.

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Deep Creek Station

21 Thursday Jul 2022

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Deep Creek Station
Pony Express

St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California
1860-1861

This monument was constructed September 3, 1934 by citizens of Ibapah and by the Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association (it is #47 of their monuments) it was later adopted by the Sons of Utah Pioneers and is located in Ibapah, Utah.

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Central Overland Trail – Deep Creek Summit

21 Thursday Jul 2022

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Central Overland Trail – Deep Creek Summit

“Started out again across the desert, drove 6 miles, found water for our horses then drove on up the mountains for 9 miles of an upward grade. Reached the summit, the drove down into the Deep Creek Canyon.”

Abbey Fulkerth, June 26, 1863

This location is the site of Utah Crossroads Chapter – OCTA’s historic marker #COTNU-14. (see other markers here)

GPS: N 40.09983 W 113.87909

Central Overland Trail – Willow Springs [Callao]

20 Wednesday Jul 2022

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Central Overland Trail – Willow Springs [Callao]

“At sunup came to Willow Springs and camped. This is quite an extensive valley. These springs are deep holes like wells and some so deep there can be no bottom found. Some run over, others stand level full. Every year some stock is lost here by drowning in these wells.”

George Harter, August 1864

This location is the site of Utah Crossroads Chapter – OCTA’s historic marker #COTNU-13. (see other markers here)

Also located here at the Bagley Ranch Century Farm / Anderson’s Willow Springs Ranch is the Willow Spring Pony Express Station in Callao, Utah.

Burnt Station

13 Wednesday Jul 2022

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Burnt Station
300 Feet West
Pony Express – 1860-61
St. Joseph, Missouri – Sacramento, California
Overland Stage 1858-1868
Established April, 1859 as an Overland Stage Station. Used later by Pony Express.
It was burned and pillaged twice by Indians who killed five keepers and riders, and two soldiers. Rebuilt on this site May, 1861, and on the ridge south of Overland Canyon in 1864.

This monument was constructed by enrollees, U. S. Grazing Division, C. C. C. Camp 116, Company 2529 on August 23, 1940 and sponsored by the Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association (#94 of their monuments) it was later adopted by the Sons of Utah Pioneers (#238 of their monuments) and rededicated in 2017.

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Central Overland Trail – Black Rock Hills Southern Route

08 Friday Jul 2022

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Central Overland Trail – Black Rock Hills Southern Route

“Having reached the plain the road ran for eight miles over a broken surface… it then forked. The left, which is about six miles the longer of the two, most be taken after rains, and leads to Devil’s Hole. … We chose the shorter cut and after eight miles rounded Mountain Point, the end of a dark brown vuute falling into the plain.”

Sir Richard Burton, September 29, 1860

This is Utah Crossroads Chapter – OCTA’s historic marker #COTNU-8A, located along the old Pony Express Route and near the Dugway Geode Beds.

(GPS: N 39.87267 W 113.16283 )

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Central Overland Trail – Five Mile Pass

06 Wednesday Jul 2022

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Central Overland Trail – Five Mile Pass

“The topographical party under my command left the post to explore the country intervening this locality and Carson River. Our course lay slightly south of west, up a scarcely perceptible ascent, out from Cedar Valley to Camp Floyd Pass, 3 miles distant from Camp Floyd.”

Captain James H. Simpson, May 2, 1859

This is Utah Crossroads Chapter – OCTA’s historic marker #COTNU-2, located along Highway 73 at the Utah County/Tooele County line at Five Mile Pass, north side of the highway. (GPS: N 40.23161 W 112.17858 )

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