Posey Station of Butterfield Overland Mail Lines

Kern County · 11 miles north of Bakersfield · location approximate

Two and one-half miles east of this point stood the Butterfield Overland Stage site called Posey Station. Operating through present Kern County during 1858-61 this famous line ran from St. Louis Missouri, to San Francisco until the outbreak of the Civil War.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document.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 ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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