Rock Springs Stage Station Site

The springs the stone names did not outlast the mines. The Overland stage moved its line south in 1862 after raids on its Sweetwater road, and the Rock Springs station stood near here on the west side of Killpecker Creek, by springs that came out of chalk cliffs. Its first keepers were two Scots, Archibald and Duncan Blair, who added a store and a bridge in 1866 and then a coal mine; Archie called the stream Kilpatrick Creek. The mining that grew from their start is what disrupted the spring that gave the town its name.

What the plaque says

Rock Springs Stage Station Site also the springs Erected to the memory of those brave pioneers who passed this way to win and hold the West

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Expedition Island — 14 mi
  Where John Wesley Powell's 1871 survey left for the canyons of the Green and Colorado; where his 1869 trip started has never been proven.
• Boar's Tusk and the Killpecker Dunes — 25 mi
  The throat of a vanished volcano made of rock from the mantle, standing over a fifty-five-mile river of dunes that crosses the Continental Divide.

More markers nearby

• Rock Springs Coal — 1.3 mi
• Beneath This Monument (Union Pacific No. 1 Mine) — 1.3 mi
• The Reliance Tipple — 4.8 mi
• Landscapes of Power — 9.0 mi