JUNE 3, 2004. Rock Creek Pony Express station in southeast Nebraska, a rope ferry at Marysville, Kansas and the Hollenberg, Kansas original Pony Express site.


Old advertisement for the Pony Express at Rock Creek Station, Nebraska.


Rock Creek (Nebraska) Pony Express station in southeast Nebraska. Oregon Trail settlers also came through here.


Various prairie plants and flowers were located along a walking path at the Rock Creek Station. Left is the Prairie Rose and right is the Common Mullen.


The McCanles pioneer family - Jefferson County's (Nebraska) first farmer David C. McCanles' great-great-grandson Bruce McCanless, Jr walked in Space from the Challenger Space Shuttle on February 7, 1984. RIGHT photo is of the old Rock Creek Station's Post Office.


Oregon Trail riders past this area in the 1850s.


Oregon Trail riders used to cross Rock Creek without a bridge at this site. A toll bridge was later built.


They put wagon rims in Rock Creek to show where wagons used to cross before the bridge was built.


Sarah is standing where the old toll bridge was located.


Ken at Rock Creek Station, June 3, 2004.


View of the bridge and reconstructed Pony Express station at Rock Creek, Nebraska.


Old wagon along the Oregon Trail at Rock Creek Station.


After leaving Rock Creek in Nebraska, we went south (after a detour) into Kansas to Marysville, Kansas where we saw this historic site of the Robe Ferry that Oregon Trail settlers used to cross the Big Blue River.


A replica of the Rope Ferry at Marysville, plus several informational markers.


Off to the Hollenbert Station Historic Site in Kansas. This site has the only original Pony Express station that's still sitting on its original site.


Hollenberg Pony Express Station historical marker in Kansas.



Signs explaining various uses of the Hollenberg Station.


Here is the original Pony Express station and rooms at Hollenberg Station where Pony Express riders stopped to change horses or to rest in the boarding rooms inside. This is the only such station still standing on its original site in the country.










Inside the old original Pony Express station. The loft is where many riders used to sleep. There was a morse code sign inside.


This painting of the Hollenberg Station site was located inside the visitor's center. It shows what it might have looked like in the 1840-1860 time frame.

The next day we drove from York, Nebraska to Tulsa, Oklahoma. I didn't take any more pictures.

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