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| Landmark #137 | Kern County | Visited: January 26, 2013 | Plaque? YES! 🙂 |
| What is it? | A plaque on the side of the road! |
| What makes it historical? | THE GUIDE SAYS: Gordon’s Ferry was an overhead cable-type of ferry operated during the 1850s by Major Gordon. An adobe station house was located on the south bank of the Kern River, just a few yards to the west of this marker, which also served as a station on the Butterfield Overland Mail Route from 1856 to 1860.
OTHER TIDBITS: Major Aneas B. Gordon’s ferry was big enough to fit a stagecoach, six horses, and the travelers they were pulling! He gold the ferry to John Gale in 1859, shortly after the horses of Butterfield Overland Mail started pulling in to the station and went south to hunt meat for the soldiers at Fort Tejón! He then set up a second Butterfield stop in Francisquito Canyon! |
| How can I Help the Helpers? | HERE’S HOW:
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| Where is this place? | LISTED DIRECTIONS: SE side of Kern River bridge, on China Loop 1,000 ft S of Round Mountain Rd Bakersfield, CA 93308 ANNOTATIONS: From Los Angeles: ~120mi (194km) — 2hrs |
| When should I go? | Whenever the mood strikes you! |