NEUTRAL
Valley Station
Sterling, United States
This tablet is the Property of the State of Colorado<br> 3.8 miles north along county road is the site of <br><b>Valley Station,</b><br> built in 1859 as a stagecoach station of the Leavenworth and Pike Express. Station on the Overland Trail to California, 1862-67. Indian War outpost, 1864-65. Once defended by a breastwork of sacks of shell corn. Erected by the State Historical Society of Colorado from the Mrs. J.N. Hall Foundation and by Troop No. 16, Sterling Scouts, B.S.A. 1933