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Weber (Bromley's) Stage & Pony Express Station, Echo City, UT, Photo. c, 1860Entry/Object ID
P1995.1P.519Description
Weber (Bromley's) Stage & Pony Express Station, Echo City, UT, Photo. 1869. Bromley's Stage & Pony Express Station, Echo City, UT, Photo. 1868. Photo of Echo City, Utah in earliest days. Five wood frame and log structures with corrals, nestled in a canyon along a stream. Wooden fences along a road. Bromley's Station shown at right.
Legend: "Further down the Echo Canyon is Echo City where at the head of Weber Canyon, Weber Station, for the Overland Stage and Pony Express, was operated by James Bromley. This station was made of stone and bare the name of Mr. Bromley as shown in the old photograph above, taken by Andrew J. Russell in 1868. It was located just below Pulpit Rock, a famous landmark at the time. Bothe rock and the station building are now gone having fallen long ago with the crowding of civilization's railroads, highways, etc., through the narrow canyon. Photograph courtesy of the Oakland California Museum. James Bromley was division superintendent of the C.O.C.& P.P. (Pony Express) from South Pass to Salt Lake City."
old digital file name: UTEchoCanyonStation & UTEchoCanyonStation8.Lexicon
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Copied from "Westward is Promitory, Building the Union Pacific R.R." by Barry Combs. taken by Andrew J. Russell in 1868.