Adobe Station was a stop on the Telegraph Stage line in
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 compris ...
, southeast of
Greenfield, during the early
1870s
The 1870s (pronounced "eighteen-seventies") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1870, and ended on December 31, 1879.
The trends of the previous decade continued into this one, as great new empires, imperialism and m ...
. It was situated from
Bakersfield
Bakersfield is a city in and the county seat of Kern County, California, United States. The city covers about near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, which is located in the Central Valley region.
Bakersfield's population as of the ...
on the Fort Tejon road. with the earliest mention being of a murder, attempted murder and attempted robbery committed by a man who met his victims at the station in 1873. A more sensational event occurred when the proprietor of the Station, Charles A. Hyde, was murdered by hatchet and his silver watch and money stolen. A hotel was operated by Peter P. Roquette in 1880. Roquette was also noted in a newspaper as a sheep shearer and Adobe Station referred to as a popular sheep shearing station.
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Railway stations in Kern County, California
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