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| Landmark #688 | Los Angeles County | Visited: June 19, 2011 | Plaque? YES! 🙂 |
| What is it? | A plaque marking the site of the Lyons Station along the Butterfield Overland Stage Route. |
| What makes it historical? | THE GUIDE SAYS: This site was the location of a combination store, post office, telegraph office, tavern, and stage depot accommodating travelers during the Kern River gold rush in the early 1850s. A regular stop for Butterfield and other early California stage lines, it was purchased by Sanford and Cyrus Lyons in 1855, and by 1868 at least twenty families lived here. Eternal Valley Memorial Park has called their final resting place “The Garden of the Pioneers.”
OTHER TIDBITS: That pretty well sums it up! |
| How can I Help the Helpers? | HERE’S HOW:
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| Where is this place? | LISTED DIRECTIONS: Eternal Valley Memorial Park 23287 N Sierra Hwy near State Hwy 14 and San Fernando Rd Newhall, CA 91321 ANNOTATIONS: From Los Angeles: ~29mi (47km) — 0.5hrs |
| When should I go? | Seven days a week, sunrise to sunset! |
