75.2.42A Mormon Tavern XP Station Marker, CA, 1962
Copyright: 75.2.42B Mormon Tavern XP Station Marker, CA, 1962
Name/Title
Mormon Tavern Pony Express Station Marker, California, Photo, 1962
Entry/Object ID
P1975.2.42
Description
Mormon Tavern Pony Express Station Marker, California, Photo, 1962. Two photos of an aggregate stone marker with embedded bronze plaque, located on the old White Rock Road. One photo is close up, the other a distance view.
75.2.42A = Distance view of monument with Maude Reynolds reading plaque. farm meadow and dirt road in distance. Legend: "Mormon Tavern monument, on the old White Rock Road, the route first used by the Pony Express between Sacramento and Placerville. View to southwestward. Calif. 1962."
75.2.42B = Close up view of plaque.
Inscription: Mormon Tavern. At this site on the old Clarksville-White Rock Emigrant Road was Mormon Tavern constructed in 1849 and enlarged and operated by Franklin Winchell in 1851. A popular stop for teams and stages it became a remount station of the Central Overland Pony Express. Here on April 4,1860 Pony Rider William (Sam) Hamilton changed horses on the first trip eastward of the Pony Express. erected 1960"
old digital file name: CAMormonTavernSta5-6
Made/Created
Artist
Reynolds, Don
Date made
1962
Place
State/Province
California
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, Photographic
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Photograph
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Pony express
Search Terms
Pony Express Station, Mormon Tavern Pony Express Station, California
