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Mettache (Sam) Pony Express Station (Gothenburg) Plaques, Photos, 1959Entry/Object ID
P1995.1P.381Description
Mettache (Sam) Pony Express Station, Blacksmith Shop, Photo, May, 1959. Five photos of bronze plaques commemorating this Pony Express Station, now located in a city park in Gothenburg, NE.
The station in the park was used as a fur trading post / ranch house along the Oregon Trail southwest of Gothenburg before it was used as a Pony Express station in 1860-61. It was moved from its original site and rebuilt in Ehmen Park in 1931
95.1P.381: Close-up of round, bronze Pony Express Rider plaque, with rectangular bronze text plaque below, affixed to the Mettache Station in Ehmen Park in Gothenburg. Plaque sculpture by Proctor. b/w
Legend: "Original Pony Express Station, 1854. Erected on the Oregon Trail four miles east of Fort McPherson, Lincoln County, Nebraska, and used as fur trading post and ranch house . 1860-61 Used as Pony Express Station; 1862-1931, Used as Overland Trail Stage Station, dwelling & bunk house and storage house on Upper "96" Ranch. 1931 Donated by Mrs.. C.A. Williams to the City of Gothenburg, Nebraska. Moved from its original site and restored here by Gothenburg Post no. 64, American Legion. Dedicated to all Pioneers who passed this way to Wind and hold the West."
95.1P.382 Close-up of round bronze Pony Express Rider plaque, only. b/w
95.1P.383 Close-up of rectangular bronze plaque (text only) on monument near site of the Sam Mettache Station Legend: "Erected by the people of Lincoln County in the Year 1931 to commemorate the Pony Express Riders. This is one of the regular stations of the Pony Express Riders. The log blacksmith shop near by is the original building used then for shoeing the ponies. The Oregon Trail continued west along the south bank of the Platte River." b/w
95.1P.384 Color snapshot (4" x 6") of restored Mettache Station in Gothenburg park. c. 1990
95.1P.385 Color snapshot (4" x 6") of rock monument with round bronze plaque of Pony Rider and Russell, Majors, Waddell, above text plaque about Pony Express.
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Photos taken by SJM staff photographer
