Kern River Slough Station was a stagecoach stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail 1st Division route from 1858 to 1861. 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) site is now registered

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#588. The site is west of

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. The California Historical Landmark reads: :''NO. 588 KERN RIVER SLOUGH STATION - Just south of this point stood the Kern River Slough Station on the Butterfield Overland Stage route. Operating through present Kern County during 1858-1861, this famous line ran from St. Louis, Missouri to San Francisco until the outbreak of the Civil War.''

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Former settlements in Kern County, California Butterfield Overland Mail in California Kern River California Historical Landmarks History of Kern County, California 1858 establishments in California Stagecoach stops in the United States {{KernCountyCA-geo-stub

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