6/11/2010
Landmark information
- Location:
Strawberry, on Hwy 50 (PM 57.8), 8.7 mi E of Kyburz - Plaque:
Official State Plaque - Site:
Nothing Remains - Date First Visited:
12/27/1995 - Date Most Recently Visited:
6/11/2010 - GPS Coordinates:
N 38 47.722, W 120 8.897
About this landmark
Plaque text:
Strawberry Valley House
This popular resort and stopping place for stages and teams of the Comstock, established by Swift and Watson in 1856, became a remount station of the Central Overland Pony Express on April 4, 1860. Here, on that date, division superintendent Bolivar Roberts waited with a string of mules to help Pony rider Warren Upson through the snowstorm on Echo Summit.