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Local
Historic Property Inventory |
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to preserve the rich heritage of the Temecula Valley' |
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Butterfield
Overland Mail |
Inventory
Number: 34 |
HISTORIC
NAME(S): Overland Line PLAQUE DESIGNATION: n/a PLAQUE SIZE: 14¼"w x 12¼"h PLAQUE LOCATION: Mounted on a Monument PLAQUE GPS COORDINATES: 33.478609, -117.097534 or N 33° 28' 43.00", W 117° 5' 51.12" PLAQUE CONDITION: Excellent LOCATION ADDRESS: 32115 Temecula Parkway- Temecula CA 92592 DESCRIPTION: Commerative plaque is on a monument in the Vail Headquarters area CURRENT OCCUPANT OR NAME: Vail Headquarters CURRENT OWNER: Arteco Partners PLAQUE TEXT: |
THE BUTTERFIELD OVERLAND MAIL ROUTE John Butterfield's Overland Line had a federal contract to carry mail from Tipton Missouri to San Francisco. Butterfield Overland stage coaches carried passengers and mail roughly following the Southern Emigrant Trail, making the trip each way in 22 days. Stages stopped at John Magee's store on the south side of the Temecula Creek from September 1858 to March 1862. In April 1859 Magee's Store became the first Temecula Post Office. The Civil War brought an end to the mail. |
During
the mid-1800's, the Butterfield Overland Mail company contracted with
the federal government to deliver mail and goods. Temecula was one
of the stage stops along the Butterfield Stage route, which followed
the Southern Emigrant Trail. |
John
Warren Butterfield |