Lyons Station Stagecoach Stop

This was a whole settlement, not just a stop. Store, post office, telegraph, tavern and stage depot stood here through the Kern River gold rush of the early 1850s, and Butterfield coaches pulled in on the run north. Sanford and Cyrus Lyons bought the place in 1855, and by 1868 twenty families lived around it. The ground is a memorial park now, and the people who ran the station are buried in the corner of it called the Garden of the Pioneers.

What the plaque says

This site was the location of a combination store, post office, telegraph office, tavern, and stage depot accommodating travelers during the Kern River gold rush in the early 1850s. A regular stop for Butterfield and other early California stage lines, it was purchased by Sanford and Cyrus Lyons in 1855, and by 1868 at least twenty families lived here. Eternal Valley Memorial Park has called their final resting place "The Garden of the Pioneers." California Registered Historical Landmark No. 688 Plaque placed by the California State Park Commission in cooperation with Eternal Valley Memorial Park; The History and Landmarks Association of the San Fernando and Antelope Valley Parlors, Native Sons and Native Daughters of the Golden West, and San Fernando Mission Parlor No. 280, Native Daughters of the Golden West, November 22, 1959

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Santa Monica Pier — 24 mi
  Where the Mother Road runs out of continent, and where the End of the Trail sign gives the drive somewhere to finish.
• Colorado Street Bridge — 25 mi
  Beaux-Arts concrete arches curving 150 feet above the Arroyo Seco, opened in 1913 and later a link in Route 66.
• Mission San Gabriel Arcangel — 29 mi
  The fourth Alta California mission, built on Tongva land with Tongva labor, rebuilt after arson and now telling that story straight.

More markers nearby

• Pioneer Oil Refinery — 0.9 mi
• Beale's Cut Stagecoach Pass — 1.4 mi
• Oak of the Golden Dream — 2.3 mi
• The Cascades — 2.8 mi