Butterfield Overland Mail in Missouri - 1858-1861 (Quincy)

The man whose name is on the sign started out driving stages in New York. John Butterfield, born in Berne, New York, on November 18, 1801, drove for lines out of Albany and Utica, opened a Utica livery in 1827 and built up about forty stage lines, with stakes in canal packets, steamboats, plank roads and a telegraph company. His express firm of 1849 was folded into the new American Express Company in 1850. He died at his Utica home in 1869; his son Daniel, a Union general, is credited with the bugle call Taps.

What the plaque says

Butterfield Overland Mail in Missouri - 1858-1861 Quincy in Hickory County, 76 miles from the Tipton Terminus, was a relay and meal station. It is not known whether Joseph Montgomery, Lyman Stilz, or William Morgan operated the station here. Erected by State Historical Society of Missouri, 1958

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Harry S Truman State Park — 19 mi
  A 1983 park on a peninsula in Truman Lake, the Osage River reservoir first planned as Kaysinger Bluff, with a marina, beach and glades found in no other state park.

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