Pony Express Historic Resource Study

SUMMARY

Division Five, which ran from Roberts Creek, Nevada, to San Francisco, California, included forty-nine stations. Fourteen of these sites are marked with plaques. Only two stations (Cold Springs and Sand Springs) in Division Five are currently on the National Register of Historic Places. San Francisco not only served as the final destination for mail en route from the East Coast, but it also functioned as a home station for mail travelling the opposite direction along the Pony Express trail.

Fish Springs Pony Express Station, Utah. Courtesy of Photograph Archives, Utah State Historical Society, Sal Lake City, UT