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Located in the Bureau of Land Management’s Stillwater Field Office management area in Nevada, the Sand Springs Pony Express Station was built in 1860 and was used by the Pony Express until it was driven out of business by the first Transcontinental Telegraph in November 1861. The telegraph and the Overland Stage Company continued to make use of the station throughout the 1860s.
Abandoned and forgotten, over the years the site was almost completely buried by drift sand. The station was not rediscovered until 1975. The next year, a team of archaeologists from the University of Nevada, Reno, excavated the site and artifacts from the station. A historically accurate stabilization of the station was completed in 1997.
More information here: https://www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/pony-express
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