Historic California
Posts, Camps, Stations and Airfields
Post at Friday's
Station
Very little is known about this short
lived military post established in 1864 near near the South Shore
of Lake Tahoe, apparently situated on the California side of
the lake.
Friday's Station was the point where the
Pony Express riders crossed the California-Nevada line. "Friday"
Burke and James Small were granted a franchise to operate a station
along the western section of the Kingsbury Grade and Mac Donald
Road. In the 1860's Friday's Station was an important remount
stop for the Pony Express riders, and continued as a Way Station
for the Pioneer stage lines and freight teams and wagons on the
Bonanza Road.
(There is a marker 3/4 miles east of the
California-Nevada State Line on U.S. 50 on the property where
the Pony Express riders rode up to the remount station off Loop
Road, across from Caesar's Tahoe. Although it is on private property,
you can see the original blacksmith shop.)
The Pony Express statue in front of Harrah's
Casino, Stateline, Nevada, commemorates the site of Friday's
Station which was located about a mile east.
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