Millersville Station Site

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Millersville Station
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Millersville Station
Location of Millersville Station in Wyoming
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Millersville Station
Millersville Station (the United States)
Location I-80 and Wyoming Highway 233
East of Lyman, Wyoming
Coordinates 41°23′25″N110°12′31″W / 41.3902°N 110.2085°W / 41.3902; -110.2085
Built for Pony Express, Early pioneers, Overland Stage and Mail

Millersville Station was home station for the Pony Express and a rest stop for early American pioneers in wagon trains heading west on the Overland Trail and Oregon Trail. [1] The site is in Uinta County, Wyoming, east of the town of Lyman, Wyoming. Millersville Station site had good year-round water from the Blacks Fork of the Green River. The Millersville station namesake is from A. B. Miller, a Pony Express partner of William Hepburn Russell and William Bradford Waddell. [2] The station also had a trading post. [2] The site was also used as a route for the Overland Stage and Mail from 1862 to 1869, which ran from Denver to Salt Lake. [3] Travelers to the Millersville Station arrived from the Granger Stage Station after crossing at Hams Fork Crossing and past Church Buttes. [3] From the Millersville Station, the Overland Trail travels west to the next stop, Fort Bridger, 12 miles away. Millersville Station served travelers on the east-west Overland Trail and the Oregon Trail that headed north at Granger Stage Station. [4] The Oregon Trail and Millersville Station was used by the Pony Express from April 3, 1860 to October 26, 1861. [5] With the completion of the first transcontinental telegraph on October 24, 1861, the Pony Express ended. [6]

With the opening of the Union Pacific Railroad's first transcontinental railroad in 1868, the wagon trains started to end. [7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Wyoming Stations".
  2. 1 2 "Millersville Station (Wyoming) | Twain's Geography". twainsgeography.com.
  3. 1 2 "The Overland Trail in Wyoming | WyoHistory.org". www.wyohistory.org.
  4. ↑ "Millersville Station Map Location | WyoHistory.org". www.wyohistory.org.
  5. ↑ Nalewicki, Jennifer. "Six Stops on the Pony Express That You Can Still Visit". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
  6. ↑ Murphy, Miriam B. (October 1995). "The Telegraph was the Information Highway of the 1860s". Utah History to Go. Utah State Historical Society/Utah State History. Archived from the original on March 17, 2018. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  7. ↑ "The Union Pacific Transcontinental Railroad: Pursuing What's Possible and Making it Happen". Union Pacific.
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