Historical Marker · No. 2293
Alvin Anderson Cabin
Tooele County, Unincorporated, Tooele County · Utah
Erected by Bureau of Land Management
By 1893 the Pony Express had been gone thirty years, and its station here at Simpson Springs was a heap of loose stone. Alvin Anderson gathered that stone and built a cabin from it, a home for his wife raised from the ruins of the fastest mail the West had ever known. She never lived in it, dying in childbirth before the house was ready. The cabin's ruins remain beside the restored station, stone returned to stone. The marker here is a printed placard on a steel post, not a cast plaque, so there is no inscription to record.
Where it stands
40.03914, -112.78742 · Directions
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