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Flowing Springs Station was a station on the Chico/Idaho stage line. | Flowing Springs Station was a station on the Chico/Idaho stage line. | ||
A ca. 1864 map held by the Nevada Historical Society shows "Flowing Spr."<ref>"[http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2391 Critical Archaeology at 19th Century Western Way Stations: Granite Creek Station, Nevada]," Sechrist, Laura Kathleen, 2014, MS Thesis, UNR, p. 31.</ref> | |||
One source states it was 10 miles from [[Cold Springs Station]] and 15 miles further to [[Soldier's Meadows Station]].<ref>"[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chico-weekly-courant-route-to-owyhee/129705511/ Route to Owyhee and Montana]," The Chico Weekly Courant, March 3, 1866, p. 2.</ref> | One source states it was 10 miles from [[Cold Springs Station]] and 15 miles further to [[Soldier's Meadows Station]].<ref>"[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chico-weekly-courant-route-to-owyhee/129705511/ Route to Owyhee and Montana]," The Chico Weekly Courant, March 3, 1866, p. 2.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 21:10, 6 November 2023
Flowing Springs Station was a station on the Chico/Idaho stage line.
A ca. 1864 map held by the Nevada Historical Society shows "Flowing Spr."[1]
One source states it was 10 miles from Cold Springs Station and 15 miles further to Soldier's Meadows Station.[2]
Another source states it was 12 miles from the Cold Springs Station and 24 miles to Soldier Meadows.[3]
Yet another source states it was 12 miles from the Cold Springs Station.[4]
Flowing Springs Station was either at the springs behind Wheeler Ranch or at Wagner Springs.
Fairfield writes that in 1867 "Charles P. McClelland and Louis M. Crill were taking care of stage stock for the Chico and Idaho line" at Flowing Springs.[5]
References
- ↑ "Critical Archaeology at 19th Century Western Way Stations: Granite Creek Station, Nevada," Sechrist, Laura Kathleen, 2014, MS Thesis, UNR, p. 31.
- ↑ "Route to Owyhee and Montana," The Chico Weekly Courant, March 3, 1866, p. 2.
- ↑ "The Chico route to Ruby City, I. T.," The Chico Weekly Courant, May 12, 1866, p. 1.
- ↑ "Idaho Stage Road," The Chico Weekly Courant, Jul 7, 1866, p. 2. Brief description of stations.
- ↑ "Fairfield's pioneer history of Lassen County, California," Asa Merrill Fairfield, 1916, p. 414.