Submitted by scott on Tue, 06/11/2013 - 14:58

This site is nine miles west of Fort Laramie.  Sources identify this station by several names, including Nine Mile Station, Sand Point, Ward's, and Central Star.  Sand Point served as a both relay station for the Pony Express and stage lines.  According to Gregory Franzwa, in the 1840s, Ward and Guerrier operated the Sand Point Trading Post at the site, and then in the 1850s, Jules E. Coffee, managed a stage station here. As late as 1990, a Pony Express and stage station marker identified the site area.

 http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/poex/hrs/hrs5d.htm#57

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Marker Category
Pony Express
Geolocation

42.19367980957, -104.65919494629

Geofield
Roughing It

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