Trail historians generally agree that Chimney Rockwas a Pony Express station, however, theexact location of this site is still unclear. Most sourcesgenerally agree on its identity as a C.O.C. This site is five miles south and oneand one-fourth miles west of Bridgeport, Nebraska. įrom Mud Springs, Pony Express riders followed aroute that passed through Pumpkin Seed Crossing and southwest of theCourt House Rock formation, where the Pony Express station was located. Scherer and children/To be preservedas a memorial to all the early settlers who/won the West./Monumenterected June 11, 1939,/by/The Mud Springs Womans Club. 6th-7th, 1865/This site given to theState of Nebraska/by/Mrs. MUD SPRINGS STATION/A Station on the Pony ExpressRoute-1860-61./A station on the First Transcontinental TelegraphLine./A station on the Overland Stage Route./Battle between SiouxIndians and U. As late as 1951, themonument and plaque still stood at this location. Sheldon, Superintendent of the NebraskaState Historical Society, dedicated a native-stone monument with abronze Pony Express symbol and plaque on the site. Scherer donatedthe station site to the Nebraska State Historical Society. Scherer purchased theproperty surrounding the Mud Springs site. Mud Springs also later served as a telegraph relay station.In February 1865, Fort Laramie soldiers clashed with Indians returningfrom the Julesburg siege in the Battle of Mud Springs. James McArdle served as stationkeeper forthe Pony Express and stage lines, which probably shared the same sodstructures. Sources generally agree on its identity as ahome station for the C.O.C. This site is possibly located about twelve milessoutheast of Bridgeport, Nebraska, in Morrill County. Nevertheless, its exactlocation is in dispute. The Mud Springs Station is well documented and it hasbeen well researched by several authors. Francis Carrington, possibly a relativeof Margaret's, mentioned this station in her diary as well. In 1866,Margaret Carrington, an officer's wife, noted that the mail stationreceived water from a "government well" at the site.
3 and Mud Springs, and noted that evidence ofstructures existed at the site. In 1960, Mattes and Henderson identify Midway as a stationbetween Pole Creek No. The site does not occur in official records, but would serveas a logical place for a relay station between Pole Creek No. 385, about three miles south and one mile west of Gurley,Nebraska. This supposed site is presumably on State Highway 285and U.S. Othersources also identify Pole Creek No. For a time,Rouliette and Pringle operated the site as a stage ranch, near theintersection of the old California Road and stage routes heading for theNorth Platte and Bridger Pass. According to Mattes and Henderson, thestation's log and sod dugout once stood on the north side of LodgepoleCreek, which flowed through the St. 3 Station site was likely aboutthree and one-half miles east of Sidney, Nebraska, in Cheyenne County.
Severalother sources also list Pole Creek No. Trail historians Mattes and Henderson also suggesta possible connection between this site and another, that was lateroccupied in 1865 by E. The name occurs in the 1861 Overland Mail Companycontract, and Mattes and Henderson place the station along LodgepoleCreek near the town of Lodgepole, about halfway between Nine Mile Creekand Pole Creek No.
According to the Mattesand the Hendersons, this site was probably in Deuel County, two milessoutheast of Chappell, Nebraska. Very, very little is known about this particularstation site other than its supposed location. DIVISION TWO: STATIONSBETWEEN FORT KEARNEY AND HORSESHOE CREEK (continued)
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