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Lone Willow Station was a former settlement in
Merced County Merced County ( ), is a county located in the northern San Joaquin Valley section of the Central Valley, in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 281,202. The county seat is Merced. The county is named after ...
,
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, located near present-day Los Banos.


Background

Lone Willow Station was a changing or swing station along the First Division route 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 ...
, from 1858 to 1861. Lone Willow Station was located on the west bank of
Mud Slough The Laguna Creek watershed consists of of land within northern California's Alameda County, California, Alameda County. The watershed drains the foothills of the Diablo Range south of Niles Canyon. To the southeast, the area of Mission Peak Reg ...
, 18 miles east of the St. Louis Ranch Station and 13 miles northwest of
Temple's Ranch Temple's Ranch, was the ranch and a home of F. P. F. Temple, a wealthy land owner in Los Angeles County, with large business and land holdings of thousands of acres in Madera County and Fresno County including this ranch in Fresno County near the M ...
Station. This station consisted of a house for the
hostler A hostler or ostler is a groom or stableman, who is employed in a stable to take care of horses, usually at an inn. In the twentieth century the word came to be used in railroad industry for a type of train driver. Etymology The word is spelled ...
and a large barn for the relay horses and storage of their barley and hay.


References

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