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| Landmark #707 | El Dorado County | Visited: July 12, 2015 | Plaque? YES! 🙂 |
| What is it? | A plaque commemorating a stop on the Pony Express! |
| What makes it historical? | THE GUIDE SAYS: 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. Here on April 4, 1860, Division Superintendent Bolivar Roberts waited with a string of mules to help pony rider Warren Upson through the snowstorm on Echo Summit.
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: Strawberry, on Hwy 50 (P.M. 578) 8.7 mi E of Kyburz 95735 ANNOTATIONS: 17481 U.S. 50 From Los Angeles: ~463mi (746km) — 7.8hrs |
| When should I go? | Whenever the mood strikes you! |