Posey Creek Station of the Butterfield Overland Mail 1st Division was located on Posey or

Poso Creek Poso Creek or Posey Creek is an intermittent stream in Kern County, California. The headwaters of Poso Creek are located within the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada and the Sequoia National Forest, at elevations of up to . The high Spear Cr ...

, in the southeastern

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, in present-day

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History

The station was at the site of the earlier Depot Camp on Posey Creek, established by the 1853 Pacific Railroad Survey Expedition of the U. S. Army led by Lieutenant

Robert Stockton Williamson Robert Stockton Williamson (January 21, 1825 – November 10, 1882) was an American soldier and engineer, noted for conducting surveys for the transcontinental railroad in California and Oregon. Inducted into the Army Corps of Engineers in 186 ...

. It was a stopping place on the

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. 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 ...

(1857–1861)

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station was located here in 1858, southwest of Mountain House station and north of

Gordon's Ferry Gordon's Ferry is both a geographical location and a historic site in Bakersfield, California. It is located where China Grade Loop crosses the Kern River and meets with Alfred Harrell Highway in Northeast Bakersfield. It is named after a ferry th ...

(Kern River Station) on the

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Landmark

The site is east of the intersection of Glennville-Bakersfield/Granite Road and Round Mountain Road. The

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 ...

Marker Number 539 at the intersection is seen on the left when traveling south on Glennville-Bakersfield/Granite Road. California Historical Landmark Marker reads: :''NO. 539 POSEY STATION OF BUTTERFIELD OVERLAND MAIL LINES - Two and one-half miles east of this point stood the Posey Station on the Butterfield Overland Stage route that ran from St. Louis, Missouri through present-day Kern County to San Francisco during 1858-61, until the outbreak of the Civil War.''californiahistoricallandmarks.com Landmark chl-539
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Posey Station of Butterfield Overland Mail Lines
Shows photos of the base of the missing Marker #539. Butterfield Overland Mail in California Former settlements in Kern County, California California Historical Landmarks History of Kern County, California Stagecoach stations in California Transportation buildings and structures in Kern County, California {{KernCountyCA-geo-stub

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