Granger Stage Station State Historic Site, Stage station from 1856 in Granger, United States.
Granger Stage Station State Historic Site is a rectangular one-story stone building measuring about 56 by 22 feet, with two interior rooms, in Granger, Wyoming. It stands where Hams Fork meets Blacks Fork of the Green River, at the point where the east-west Overland Trail joined the Oregon Trail coming from the north.
A settlement formed around 1856 where Hams Fork meets Blacks Fork, at a ferry crossing. It became a Pony Express station in 1860–1861 and an Overland Trail station in 1862, known as South Bend Station. The Union Pacific Railroad reached the site in 1868, superseding the trail, and the station was deeded to Wyoming in 1930.
The station's names track its changing roles: South Bend Station on the Overland Trail, Ham's Fork Station, and Granger Stage Station. It is where the east-west Overland Trail joins the Oregon Trail coming down from the north. The site today interprets the station, the Pony Express and the Overland Trail.
The stone station stands in Granger, Wyoming, where the Overland Trail met the Oregon Trail; the site is operated as a state historic site and was deeded to the State of Wyoming in 1930. The building has two interior rooms, so a visit is short and best combined with a stop in the town of Granger.
The stone building replaced an earlier ferry settlement at the meeting of Hams Fork and Blacks Fork, where a crossing operated from about 1856. The Union Pacific Railroad reached the site in 1868, ending the overland trail traffic that had sustained the station.
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