Submitted by scott on Mon, 06/10/2013 - 12:44

Point plotted about 1 mile west of Brule on Hwy 30

The site of Diamond Springs Station was probably about a mile west of Brule, in Keith County, Nebraska.  In 1931, O. H. Hinrichs visited the station site and noted several trenches that indicated the outline of a rectangular stockade. Glass telegraph insulators found at the site suggest that the station later served as a telegraph station as well.  As late as 1960, a monument identified the Diamond Springs site on the south side of U. S. 30, .9 mile west of Brule. The text of Nebraska Monument No. 40 read: "Diamond Springs .8 mile southwest."

http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/poex/hrs/hrs5a.htm#40

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Marker Category
Pony Express
Geolocation

41.083099365234, -101.88800048828

Geofield
Roughing It

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