Last updated: June 14, 2024
Place
Faust's Pony Express Station
NPS Photo
Quick Facts
Location:
Near Vernon, Utah
Significance:
Pony Express Utah Home Station
MANAGED BY:
Private - express station marker is visible near location
Pony Express Utah No. 15 Home Station (Bush Valley / Rush Valley / Meadow Creek / Faust / Meady Creek)
Fike and Headley place this station eight and three-fourths miles from East Rush Valley. The 1861 mail contract probably mistakenly identified this station as Bush Valley. 17 Other sources list the stone station as Rush Valley, Bush Valley, Faust's, Doc Faust's, and Meadow Creek.
George Chorpenning erected the station in 1858. Henry J. "Doc" Faust later purchased the land as a ranch and raised horses for the Pony Express and later military operations. Faust served as stationkeeper during the Pony Express era and lived on the land until 1870, when he moved to Salt Lake City and went into the livery business. Kate B. Carter identifies Rush Valley as the first home station west of Salt Lake City and notes that the valley and station received their names from a body of water lined with bullrushes in the north end of the valley.
As late as 1978, the stone station house and a cemetery still existed on private land. A misplaced marker also stands north of the site.
Fike and Headley place this station eight and three-fourths miles from East Rush Valley. The 1861 mail contract probably mistakenly identified this station as Bush Valley. 17 Other sources list the stone station as Rush Valley, Bush Valley, Faust's, Doc Faust's, and Meadow Creek.
George Chorpenning erected the station in 1858. Henry J. "Doc" Faust later purchased the land as a ranch and raised horses for the Pony Express and later military operations. Faust served as stationkeeper during the Pony Express era and lived on the land until 1870, when he moved to Salt Lake City and went into the livery business. Kate B. Carter identifies Rush Valley as the first home station west of Salt Lake City and notes that the valley and station received their names from a body of water lined with bullrushes in the north end of the valley.
As late as 1978, the stone station house and a cemetery still existed on private land. A misplaced marker also stands north of the site.
Site Information
Location (Near Vernon Utah, 40.1741, -112.4273)