Oak Grove Stage Station

Warren Hall is on three plaques in this desert and never once with his partner. This one names Jacob Bergman beside him, driving the first eastern mail stage up from Fort Yuma and passing here on October 6, 1858. The station itself still stands, which almost none of the Butterfield stations do. Camp Wright moved onto this ground months after the mail stopped in 1861, and the two bronzes now stand about seven hundred feet apart.

What the plaque says

Oak Grove Stage Station Occupied in 1858 by Warren Hall, division superintendent, Butterfield Overland Mail which operated between San Francisco and the eastern termini, St. Louis and Memphis, from September 15, 1858 to March 2, 1861. The first mail stage from the east driven from Fort Yuma by Warren Hall and Jacob Bergman passed here October 6, 1858 State Registered Landmark No. 502 Marker placed by San Diego County Board of Supervisors and the Historical Markers Committee. Erected 1953

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Borrego Springs — 27 mi
  A dark-sky town ringed by state park, with 130 metal beasts loose in the desert around it.

More markers nearby

• Camp Wright — steps away
• Warner's Ranch — 13 mi
• Site of De Anza Camp, March 1774 — 13 mi
• Asistencia San Antonio de Pala — 16 mi