Last updated: June 9, 2026
Place
Carson Station
NPS Photo
Quick Facts
Location:
Granite Pony Express marker is on the sidewalk in front of a diner at 300 Carson St. Carson City, Nevada. GPS marker 39.1626, -119.7671666667,
Significance:
Carson Station was a Pony Express home station (1860-1861) near the western terminus of the Pony Express route.
Designation:
Historic site and Pony Express Station on the Pony Express NHT.
MANAGED BY:
Carson City
Amenities
1 listed
Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits
A Pony Express home station, where riders began and ended their “beat,” once stood along Carson Street between Fourth and Fifth streets in Carson City, Nevada. Today a granite monument with historical information commemorates the station, which served the Pony Express throughout the operation’s history (1860-1861). Little information is available about the station.
Sir Richard Burton, nearing the end of his cross-country stagecoach trip, made notes in his journal about the character of this rough-edged mining town as he found it in 1860. On Oct. 8, he wrote, “My informants declared that in and about Carson a dead man for breakfast was the rule. . .they reckoned per annum fifty murders. In a peculiar fit of liveliness an intoxicated gentleman will discharge his revolver in a ball-room, and when a “shyooting” begins in the thin walled frame houses, those not concerned avoid bullets and splinters by jumping into their beds. During my three days’ stay at Carson City I heard of three murders.”
Site Information
Location (Granite Pony Express marker is on the sidewalk in front of a diner at 300 Carson St., Carson City, Nevada. GPS marker 39.1626, -119.7671666667.)