Plum Creek Historical Trail Ruts

Take a look at this trail swale to know what to look for.

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Quick Facts

Location:

Lexington, Nebraska

Significance:

The Pony Express, Oregon, California, and Mormon Pioneer Trails passed south of Lexington, Nebraska. Plum Creek was a Pony Express Relay Station.

Amenities

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Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits

Pony Express Nebraska No. 17 Relay Station
(Plum Creek)

This site is likely about ten miles southeast of Lexington, Nebraska. Sources generally agree on its identity and location as a relay station. In 1859, the L. & P.P. Express Co. listed Plum Creek as a stop on its route. Later the station's log structures housed a Pony Express station and stage stop, and even later a telegraph station.

Attacks on wagon trains and stagecoaches between 1864 and 1867 led to the establishment of a small garrison of troops at Plum Creek Station. Sometime after August 1867 the station was burned and abandoned. A small cemetery near the station contains the graves of victims of an 1864 or 1865 Indian attack. 

Site Information

Location (Lexington, Nebraska)

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Oregon National Historic Trail

California National Historic Trail

Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail

Pony Express National Historic Trail