Fifteen Mile House - Overland Pony Express Route in California
California State Historic Landmark 698
12/27/95
#698 Fifteen Mile House
Owned and operated from 1857 as a stage station by Henry E.W. Deterding, this was the site of the second remount station of the Central Overland Pony Express during March - July 1860. Here on April 4, 1860, Sam (Bill) Hamilton with the first eastward mail of the Pony Express changed ponies, with Mormon Tavern as his next stop.
Nothing remains of this site.
On White Rock Rd, 0.2 mi E of intersection of Sunrise blvd and White Rock Rd, Rancho
Cordova.
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