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Roberts Creek Nevada

Roberts Creek Nevada Overview

Located in Eureka County, Nevada was the Pony Express stop called Roberts Creek or Roberts.

Learn more about the Pony Express: The Route, The Riders, The Ruins Left Behind.

Year Established/Founded

1860

Roberts Creek Nevada History

Various nearby landforms and the station were named after the Pony Express division superintendent, Bolivar Roberts.

Historic Resource Study Pony Express National Historic Trail

The final station in Division Four was known as Roberts or Roberts Creek, a fact that all sources agree upon.

The Roberts Creek Station existed as one of the original Pony Express stations.

It was built in the spring of 1860 by either Bolivar Roberts’ or Howard Egan’s men.

Other stations faced Indian troubles in May 1860, but it remains unclear whether any harm came to the Roberts Creek Station.

Richard Burton definitely stated that Indians had burned the station, and workers had rebuilt only part of it by his October 10, 1860, visit.

The site at Roberts Creek also later served as a station for the telegraph and the Overland stage line, and the station appeared on the 1861 mail contract with the Overland Mail Company. 

The station’s original log structure no longer exists. A log dugout stood near the site in 1981, but its relationship to the Roberts Creek Station remained unknown at that time.

Timeline

  • Spring 1860 – The station was established
  • October 10, 1860 – Richard Burton visits the area
  • October 26, 1861 – The operations cease after the first transcontinental telegraph was established on October 24, 1861

Elevation

Unknown at this time.

LocationRoberts Creek Nevada

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Roberts Creek Nevada