Historic Place

Pinery Station

Guadalupe Mountain National Park · Culberson County · Dedicated 1974 · THC Atlas #2074000281

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About this site

Pinery Station is a historic place in Guadalupe Mountain National Park, Culberson County, dedicated in 1974. It is one of 4 historic places documented in Culberson County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 18 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 31.8936, -104.8173 near Guadalupe Mountain National Park. The nearest cataloged historic site is Ruins of "The Pinery" or "Pine Springs" Stage Stand (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Guadalupe Peak, Pratt, Wallace, Lodge, and Figure 2 Ranch.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2074000281. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

Pinery Station is the stone ruin of a relay station on the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach route, built in 1858 at the crest of Guadalupe Pass in what is now Guadalupe Mountains National Park. At about 5,700 feet it was the highest station on the entire St. Louis-to-San Francisco line, built as a fortification with thick stone walls enclosing a corral and a three-room station house. The route was rerouted after only eleven months, and the station was abandoned in 1859. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org nps.gov

📍 31.8936, -104.8173 · Guadalupe Mountain National Park, Culberson County

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Ruins of "The Pinery" or "Pine Springs" Stage Stand

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