Oak Grove Stage Station

San Diego County · Oak Grove · location approximate

Oak Grove is one of the few remaining stations on the Butterfield Overland Mail route which operated between San Francisco and two eastern termini, St. Louis, Missouri, and Memphis, Tennessee, from September 15, 1858, to March 2, 1861. During the Civil War the station was used as a hospital for Camp Wright which was located nearby.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people; the state's landmark listings still carry most of this wording, and the California Office of Historic Preservation maintains the program's current texts.

Many of these plaques have since been recast or their texts revised. The California Historical Landmarks program and its current texts are maintained by the California Office of Historic Preservation. California Office of Historic Preservation ↗

USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection

Marker data: State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, California Historical Landmarks (1971)

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