Adventure: 051, Site 155 –
Lyons Station Stagecoach Stop
California Landmark Number: 688
Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date: October 6, 2012
Location:
Latitude:
N 34° 21.730
Longitude: W 118° 30.441
Address:
23287 North Sierra Highway, Newhall, CA
We credit the LA freeways for this find. We had gotten on I-5 from
210, we started to settle in. Then Thing One says, Ohh, Oh, I think
we are on the wrong freeway—Highway 14 had taken off on us and we
were approaching Newhall. Thing Two said that there was more
landmarks in Newhall. One was right by us, the Lyon's Station. So off
we went down the Sierra Highway and then we came up to a memorial
park. This was it and right there at the entrance was the plaque. The
building behind the plaque is a modern chapel. Thing Two spies an
ancient hearse and has to take picture of this one as well—it was
the last horse drawn hearse in Los Angeles county.NO. 688 LYONS STATION STAGECOACH STOP - This site was the location of a combination store, post office, telegraph office, tavern, and stage depot accommodating travelers during the Kern River gold rush in the early 1850s. A regular stop for Butterfield and other early California stage lines, it was purchased by Sanford and Cyrus Lyons in 1855, and by 1868 at least twenty families lived here. Eternal Valley Memorial Park has called their final resting place "The Garden of the Pioneers."
Location: Eternal Valley Memorial Park, 23287 N Sierra Hwy, near State Hwy 14 and San Fernando Rd, Newhall
References:
- Wikipedia
- Lyons Brothers Biographies
- Butterfield
Stage Coach Route
- Waymarking
Overall Landmark References:
- David Schmitt's California
State Historical Landmark (Schmitt)
- Wikipedia: California's
National Landmarks (WCNL)
- State of California's California
Historical Landmarks (CHL)
- Wikipedia: California
State Landmarks (WCSL)
- State of California Historical
Resources (CHR)
- WayMarking
(WAY)
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