Granger Stage Station

Once the emigrant trails became established in the late 1840s, stage stations sprang up across the western United States, carrying passengers and mail to Oregon and California.  Originally, the site of the Granger Stage Station was home to a dugout station called Ham’s Fork.  However, once the “Stagecoach King” Ben Holladay decided to relocate his stage service from the Oregon Trail south to the Overland Trail, the Ham’s Fork Station was upgraded to a stone building known as South Bend Station.  The name “Granger” came into use once the Union Pacific Railroad arrived in the late 1860s.  Even this new and improved building offered little comfort to weary travelers, as anyone who has read Mark Twain’s Roughing It knows.  Horace Greeley and Mark Twain himself are just two famous stagecoach passengers rumored to have passed through Granger Stage Station.  Stop by this piece of history on your way through Granger and get a glimpse of what early travelers experienced.

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