Historical Markers of Churchill County
Location: Eastern Churchill County, Desotoya Mountains Directions: Along US 50, approximately 25 miles west of Austin
N 39° 34.045 W 117° 30.614
Date Conquered: 10/21/07 Quick Description: A marker commemorating an original Overmail Mail stage station. Signed: Yes -- Signed on both lanes of US 50. Marker History: [135] New Pass Station was adorned with a new font style that debuted in 2010. It is among a dozen or so markers whose plaques have been refaced using this style font. The original marker was removed due to the acts of vandals and was replaced with an entirely new marker circa 2009. NDOT erected the chain-link fence around the old station a few years before the marker's disappearance, probably in an attempt to keep these same vandals out. In any case, us marker hunters are thrilled to this fine piece of history, and its representing marker, preserved for years to come! Full Description: Exact description as reads ... The newer-style replacement font for #135. In 1861, the rocks composing the walls of the stage station and freighter stop were in neat rows and roofed with bundles of willow. It was one part of "stagecoach king", John Butterfield's Overland Mail & Stage Company road systems, which at the time began traversing this central route between Salt Lake City, Utah and Genoa, Nevada. The natural spring here was inadequate for both humans and horses. However, division superintendant Thomas Plain's support ranch, one mile to the west, kept this important team-watering and stock replacement stop operating. Completion of the first transcontinental railroad meant the eventual demise of the Overland Stage Line. In 1866, Butterfield sold out to Wells Fargo and Company. By February 1869, Wells Fargo suspended all operations on the central route and the New Pass Station faded into history. Kudos to the state of Nevada for preserving what is left of old New Pass Station. Such stations like these are sometimes all that's left of important commerce routes.
Marker History: [135] New Pass Station was adorned with a new font style that debuted in 2010. It is among a dozen or so markers whose plaques have been refaced using this style font. The original marker was removed due to the acts of vandals and was replaced with an entirely new marker circa 2009. NDOT erected the chain-link fence around the old station a few years before the marker's disappearance, probably in an attempt to keep these same vandals out. In any case, us marker hunters are thrilled to this fine piece of history, and its representing marker, preserved for years to come! Full Description: Exact description as reads ... The newer-style replacement font for #135. In 1861, the rocks composing the walls of the stage station and freighter stop were in neat rows and roofed with bundles of willow. It was one part of "stagecoach king", John Butterfield's Overland Mail & Stage Company road systems, which at the time began traversing this central route between Salt Lake City, Utah and Genoa, Nevada. The natural spring here was inadequate for both humans and horses. However, division superintendant Thomas Plain's support ranch, one mile to the west, kept this important team-watering and stock replacement stop operating. Completion of the first transcontinental railroad meant the eventual demise of the Overland Stage Line. In 1866, Butterfield sold out to Wells Fargo and Company. By February 1869, Wells Fargo suspended all operations on the central route and the New Pass Station faded into history. Kudos to the state of Nevada for preserving what is left of old New Pass Station. Such stations like these are sometimes all that's left of important commerce routes.
Full Description: Exact description as reads ... The newer-style replacement font for #135. In 1861, the rocks composing the walls of the stage station and freighter stop were in neat rows and roofed with bundles of willow. It was one part of "stagecoach king", John Butterfield's Overland Mail & Stage Company road systems, which at the time began traversing this central route between Salt Lake City, Utah and Genoa, Nevada. The natural spring here was inadequate for both humans and horses. However, division superintendant Thomas Plain's support ranch, one mile to the west, kept this important team-watering and stock replacement stop operating. Completion of the first transcontinental railroad meant the eventual demise of the Overland Stage Line. In 1866, Butterfield sold out to Wells Fargo and Company. By February 1869, Wells Fargo suspended all operations on the central route and the New Pass Station faded into history. Kudos to the state of Nevada for preserving what is left of old New Pass Station. Such stations like these are sometimes all that's left of important commerce routes.
In 1861, the rocks composing the walls of the stage station and freighter stop were in neat rows and roofed with bundles of willow. It was one part of "stagecoach king", John Butterfield's Overland Mail & Stage Company road systems, which at the time began traversing this central route between Salt Lake City, Utah and Genoa, Nevada. The natural spring here was inadequate for both humans and horses. However, division superintendant Thomas Plain's support ranch, one mile to the west, kept this important team-watering and stock replacement stop operating. Completion of the first transcontinental railroad meant the eventual demise of the Overland Stage Line. In 1866, Butterfield sold out to Wells Fargo and Company. By February 1869, Wells Fargo suspended all operations on the central route and the New Pass Station faded into history. Kudos to the state of Nevada for preserving what is left of old New Pass Station. Such stations like these are sometimes all that's left of important commerce routes.
The natural spring here was inadequate for both humans and horses. However, division superintendant Thomas Plain's support ranch, one mile to the west, kept this important team-watering and stock replacement stop operating. Completion of the first transcontinental railroad meant the eventual demise of the Overland Stage Line. In 1866, Butterfield sold out to Wells Fargo and Company. By February 1869, Wells Fargo suspended all operations on the central route and the New Pass Station faded into history. Kudos to the state of Nevada for preserving what is left of old New Pass Station. Such stations like these are sometimes all that's left of important commerce routes.
Completion of the first transcontinental railroad meant the eventual demise of the Overland Stage Line. In 1866, Butterfield sold out to Wells Fargo and Company. By February 1869, Wells Fargo suspended all operations on the central route and the New Pass Station faded into history. Kudos to the state of Nevada for preserving what is left of old New Pass Station. Such stations like these are sometimes all that's left of important commerce routes.
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