Mud Springs Pony Express Station (Neb.)
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- Work cat.: Bleed, Peter. Archaeological investigations of Overland Trails and Civil War era features at Mud Springs Station and the Rush Creek Trail Crossing in Western Nebraska, 2017:title page (Mud Springs Station) page 1 (Mud Springs Pony Express/Telegraph Station)
- GNIS, October 3, 2017(Mud Springs Pony Express Station (historical), local, Stage stop; variant: Pony Express Station Number Thirty-two; Morrill County, Nebraska; 41°29'00"N 103°01'32"W)
The Mud Springs Station Archaeological District, which includes the Mud Springs Pony Express Station Site, near Dalton, Nebraska, has significance dating to the mid-19th century. The Pony Express station at Mud Springs, staffed by U.S. soldiers, was attacked by Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribesmen during February 4–6, 1865, in what became known as the Battle of Mud Springs. In 1966, the site of the Pony Express station was a 150-by-150-foot (46 m × 46 m) plot. Part of the present area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 as Mud Springs Pony Express Station Site, and the listing was expanded to 48 acres (19 ha) and renamed on the register in 2011. It has also been designated Nebraska historic site 25MO72.
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