Mountain House or Willow Springs Station, in what is now
Kern County, California
Kern County is a county (United States), county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 909,235. Its county seat is Bakersfield, California, Bakersfield.
Kern County comprise ...
, was a
stage station
A stage station or relay station, also known as a staging post, a posting station, or a stage stop, is a place where exhausted horses could be replaced by fresh animals, since a long journey was much faster without delays when horses needed rest ...
of the
Butterfield Overland Mail
Butterfield Overland Mail (officially the Overland Mail Company)Waterman L. Ormsby, edited by Lyle H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum, "The Butterfield Overland Mail", The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1991. was a stagecoach service i ...
, located south of
Fountain Spring Station, and northeast of
Posey Creek Station at
Willow Springs on Willow Springs Creek.
Mountain House is a
California Historical Landmark
A California Historical Landmark (CHL) is a building, structure, site, or place in California that has been determined to have statewide historical landmark significance.
Criteria
Historical significance is determined by meeting at least one of ...
. On October 13, 1957, the
California State Park Commission erected marker number 589 south of it.
Mountain House Station California Historical Landmark, signed May 22, 1957, reads:
See also
*
Butterfield Overland Mail in California Butterfield may refer to:
* Butterfield (surname)
* Butterfield Market
Places
* Butterfield, Dublin, a suburb and townland of Dublin, Ireland
* Butterfield Green, Luton, England
United States
* Butterfield, Minnesota
* Butterfield, Missouri ...
*
Woody, California
Woody (formerly, Weringdale) is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Kern County, California, Kern County, California, in the United States. It is located in the foothills of the Greenhorn Mountains, north-northeast of Bakersfield, ...
References
External links
Exterior view of the Willow Springs Gold Mine and Stage Station, Kern County, ca.1900, #1from USC Digital Library
Exterior view of the Willow Springs Mine and Stage Station, Kern County, ca.1900, #2from USC Digital Library
Exterior view of the Willow Springs Mine and Stage Station, Kern County, ca.1900, #3from USC Digital Library
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Former settlements in Kern County, California
Former populated places in California
Populated places established in 1858
Butterfield Overland Mail in California
1858 establishments in California
Stagecoach stops in the United States