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- 1 2 3 4 Santa Clara Valley History Association: "Major Gordon's Station" (Widow Smith's Station) history
- ↑ List of Butterfield Overland Mail Stations, from New York Times, October 14 1858, "Itinerary of the Route"
- ↑ Mildred Brooke Hoover, Hero Eugene Rensch, Ethel Grace Rensch, 3rd Edition revised by William N. Abeloe, Historic Spots in California, 3rd Ed., Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1966, p.168
- ↑ Harris Newmark, "Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913", The Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1916, p. 195
- ↑ Notes of a Trip to Los Angeles No. 1, Daily Alta California, Volume 12, Number 3888, 5 October 1860 — Page 1
- ↑ SCVH: HABS Major Gordon's Station description page
- ↑ Major Gordon's Station, San Francisquito Canyon; 1936 Photos and HABS Renderings, from www.scvhistory.com
- ↑ Mildred Brooke Hoover, Hero Eugene Rensch, Ethel Grace Rensch, 3rd Edition revised by William N. Abeloe, Historic Spots in California, 3rd Ed., Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1966, p.168