Pony Express Station

The steel post calls this Centre Star, and the National Park Service's study of the route gives it four names: Nine Mile, Sand Point, Ward's and Central Star. They pile up from its uses. In the 1840s Ward and Guerrier kept the Sand Point trading post here, and in the 1850s Jules Coffee ran a stage station, which the Pony Express used as a relay stop in 1860 and 1861. The post is one of Joe Nardone's: the Pony Express historian set stainless poles at stations he located from the records, and later granite monuments.

What the plaque says

XP Centre Star Station Site Pony Express Trail 1860-1861 Dedicated 2004 AKA Ward's Station Nine Mile House - Sandpoint - Adolph's Pony Express Trail Association - Joe Nardone, Historian Pony Express Pony Express Station 1860 - 1861

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Register Cliff State Historic Site — 0.3 mi
  The first camp out of Fort Laramie, where the oldest date on the rock reads 1829 and three emigrants never left.
• Oregon Trail Ruts State Historic Site — 1.8 mi
  The clearest wagon ruts on the trail, worn by iron tires and cut deeper by travelers who hacked at the ledge to get their wagons over.
• Fort Laramie National Historic Site — 8.7 mi
  Old Bedlam, the officers' quarters of 1849, survived the auction that scattered the rest of the post; an 1875 Army bridge still crosses the river.

More markers nearby

• Register Cliff — 0.3 mi
• Oregon Trail Memorial — 0.3 mi
• Oregon Trail Ruts — 1.7 mi
• Oregon Trail Ruts — 1.7 mi