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This photoshows the marker installed in 1958, commemorating the Butterfield Overland Mail Route used from 1858 to 1881 from Stockton to Los Angeles, CA. It was part of the route between St. Louis and San Francisco, and was the first overland mail…

From 1854 until the Tule River changed its course in 1862, Peter Goodhue operated an emigrant trail stopping place on the banks of the river. From 1858 to 1861, it also was a station of the Butterfield Overland Mail Stage. The location then was…

Historical markers commemorating the old stage road and the Fountain Springs Stage Station of the Butterfield Overland Stage Route are located at Fountain Springs, east of Ducor, CA.

Residents of Visalia, CA, on October 8, 1952, celebrated the 100th anniversary of the settling of their city, as well as the arrival of the first Butterfield Stage. From left to right are Mrs. Tom Crowe, historian Annie Mitchell, and Debe Mitchell.

"""Robbers' Gold"" is the focus of legends surrounding the large sycamore tree at left at the site of the White River State Station of the Butterfield Overland Stage Route used from 1858 to 1881. The tamarask tree in the right foreground was in the…

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Fountain Springs, shown here, was the site of a Butterfield stage station, up the slope at near right about 50 steps from the spring located just in front of the darkest mass offoliage. This route was used from 1858 to…

Fountain Springs, shown here, was the site of a Butterfield stage station, up the slope at near right about 50 steps from the spring located just in front of the darkest mass offoliage. This route was used from 1858 to 1881. The trees here are…

This was the site of the White River Station on the Butterfield Overland State Route from 1858 to 1881. The tamarask tree in the left foreground was in the inn yard in 1870 at this "telegraph crossing" of the White River.

These two historical markers are located west of Lindsay, CA, at the intersection of Highways 65 and 137. The Butterfield marker, placed in 1958, commemorates the overland trail used for mail from 1858 to 1881, as part of the Stockton to Los Angeles…

This photoshows the marker installed in 1958, commemorating the Butterfield Overland Mail Route used from 1858 to 1881 from Stockton to Los Angeles, CA. It was part of the route between St. Louis and San Francisco, and was the first overland mail…