Strawberry Valley House - Overland Pony Express Route in California

California State Historic Landmark 707

Plaque exists. No site exists. Landmark location.

Plaque Photo:


12/27/95
#707 Strawberry Valley House
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 on April 4, 1860. Here, on that date, division superintendent Bolivar Roberts waited with a string of mules to help Pony rider Warren Upson through the snowstorm on Echo Summit.

Site Photo:

No site exists.
Nothing remains of this site.

Location:

Strawberry, on Hwy 50 (PM 57.8), 8.7 mi E of Kyburz.

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