| Stonewall Creek Cherokee Station | |
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  Stonewall Creek Cherokee Station Location of Stonewall Creek Cherokee Station in Colorado  Stonewall Creek Cherokee Station Stonewall Creek Cherokee Station (the United States) | |
| Location | U.S. Route 287 and Tenmile Creek |
| Coordinates | 40°51′43″N105°15′18″W / 40.8620°N 105.255°W |
| Built for | Early pioneers, Overland Stage and Mail |
Stonewall Creek Cherokee Station, also called Ten Mile Station was a rest stop for early American pioneers in wagon trains heading west on the Overland Trail. The site is in Larimer County, Colorado. The station is on Stonewall Creek just south of Ten Mile Creek. The Cherokee Station site had good year-round water from Stonewall Creek. The station also had a trading post and a saloon. The site was used as a route for the Overland Stage and Mail from 1862 to 1869, which ran from Denver to Salt Lake. Travelers to the Cherokee Station arrived from the Bonner Springs Station, 12 miles south in 1862 and then the Park Creek Station starting in 1863. From the Cherokee Station, the Overland Trail travels north to the next stop, Virginia Dale Station, 8 miles away. Three miles east of the Cherokee Station is the landmark Steamboat Rock, a 6,842-foot (2,085 meters) tall sandstone formation. Daughters of the American Revolution installed a granite marker at Cherokee Station in 1989 on private property just off the highway. [1] [2] [3]
With the opening of the Union Pacific Railroad's first transcontinental railroad in 1868, the wagon trains started to end. [4]
