Granger Station State Historic Site, also known as Granger

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 ...

, South Bend Station and Ham's Fork Station, is a state park in

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, United States, that is listed on the

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(NRHP).

Description

The site is dedicated to the interpretation of the station, the

Pony Express The Pony Express was an American express mail service that used relays of horse-mounted riders. It operated from April 3, 1860, to October 26, 1861, between Missouri and California. It was operated by the Central Overland California and Pi ...

and the Overland Trail. The station is a rectangular one-story stone building measuring about by . There are two interior rooms.

History

A settlement was first established about 1856 at the meeting of Hams Fork with Blacks Fork of the

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, where a ferry crossed Hams Fork. This became a station on the Pony Express in 1860-1861, then was a station on the Overland Trail in 1862. By this time it was known as the South Bend Station. In 1868 the trail was superseded when the

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...

arrived at the site. The station was deeded to the State of Wyoming in 1930. It is operated as a state historic site. The Granger Station was placed on the

on February 26, 1970. The site was added to the NRHP February 26, 1970.

References

External links

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Granger Stage Station
at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office
Granger Stage Station, Old Route 30 North, Granger, Sweetwater, WY
at the

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Description

History

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