STRAWBERRY VALLEY HOUSE-OVERLAND PONY EXPRESS ROUTE IN CALIFORNIA

Historical Landmark

Description:
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.

Registration Date: 9/11/1959

Location:
City: Kyburz
County: El Dorado

Directions:
Strawberry, on Hwy 50 (P.M. 578), 8.7 mi E of Kyburz

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