Guidebook
NO. 704 SPORTSMAN'S HALL OVERLAND PONY EXPRESS ROUTE IN CALIFORNIA - This was the site of Sportsman's Hall, also known as Twelve-Mile House, the hotel operated in the latter 1850s and 1860s by John and James Blair. A stopping place for stages and teams of the Comstock, it became a relay station of the Central Overland Pony Express. Here, at 7:40 a.m., April 4, 1860, pony rider William (Sam) Hamilton rode in from Placerville and handed the express mail to Warren Upson, who two minutes later sped on his way eastward.
Location
5620 Old Pony Express Trail, Pollock Pines
Open Map
NO. 704 SPORTSMAN'S HALL OVERLAND PONY EXPRESS, Marker
NO. 704 SPORTSMAN'S HALL OVERLAND PONY EXPRESS, State Plaque
NO. 704 SPORTSMAN'S HALL OVERLAND PONY EXPRESS
NO. 704 SPORTSMAN'S HALL OVERLAND PONY EXPRESS, Pony Express Plaques