Name/Title
Echo Pony Express Station Excavation Photos, 1960 & 1961Entry/Object ID
P1975.2.7Description
Echo Pony Express Station Excavation Photos, 1960 & 1961. Four photos of archaeological excavation at the site of where this station is believed to have been located.
75.2.7 = Photo of landscape where the station was situated. In this modern photo there is a road along the center with an isolated filling station. Roads lined with fence posts.
Legend: "Echo station area. View to the northwestward. Old abandoned concrete cross-country highway passes in front of now isolated filling station, etc. which, like the stage and Pony Express before it, is called Castle Rock because of the rock formation above. Now and for many years owned by the Moore Ranch. Utah, 5/61"
75.2.8 = Photo of two men sifting soil through screen at this site. Legend: "Our excavation was near a spring at a point specified by Mr. Moore and thought to be the site of the old Echo Station. It produced many historical items of interest. Among these were old bottle glass, clay pipes, harness hardware, kitchen utensils, telegraph insulator parts and wire, etc. and a stagecoach axle were found. Utah, 8/60. (See some items in the END of an ERA exhibit at this museum.)
75.2.9 = Photo of Maude Reynolds digging around an artifact, with other artifacts displayed on canvas cloth beside her. Same as 95.1P.288 dated on back 8/60.
75.2.10 = View of landscape of Echo Canyon with modern day buildings where site of Pony Express Station sat. Legend "Westward view down Echo Canyon with Echo Station site where buildings now are. The old overland trails on their way past this station followed a course now occupied by the old abandoned concrete highway between the upper and lower railroad lines. A new four-lane highway (Interstate 80) is at left. Note animal corrals of the same type as was used in the Pony Express and stage days still being used in about the same location. Utah, 5/61
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old digital file name:
UTEchoCanyonStation3
UTEchoCanyonStation6
UTEchoCanyonStation6
UTEchoCanyonStation7Made/Created
Date made
1960 - 1961Place
Location
Echo Canyon StationState/Province
UtahNotes
Date: 1961Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Pony expressSearch Terms
Pony Express Station, Echo Pony Express Station, Castle Rock Pony Express Station, Echo CanyonProvenance
Notes
Photo taken by SJM staff photographer
