Submitted by scott on Tue, 06/04/2013 - 14:26

This site is probably about six miles southeast of Hastings in Adams County. Many sources agree on its identity and location as a stage stop for the L. & P.P. Express Co. and C.O.C. & P.P. Express Co. and as a relay station for the Pony Express.  George A. Comstock served as stationkeeper of the long, one-story building, named after the distance between it and Fort Kearney. In August 1864, Comstock abandoned the station, which Indians later burned to the ground.  

Today, the National Register of Historic Places designates the station's location as an historic archaeological site.  In 1960, a small, numberless Nebraska Monument stood near the edge of the site. The text read "Dinner Station, I.O.O.F.E., Pony Express."

 http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/poex/hrs/hrs4c.htm

Marker Category
Pony Express
Geolocation

40.464698791504, -98.166999816895

Geofield
Roughing It

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