Built in March 1860, Sand Springs Pony Express Station served the Pony Express until the first Transcontinental Telegraph drove it out of business in November 1861. The telegraph and the Overland Stage Company continued using the station throughout the 1860s, and other freight companies, including Wells Fargo, occasionally used the building until about 1900. After being abandoned and forgotten, the site was almost completely buried by drift sand over the years and was not rediscovered until 1975. In 1976, a team of archaeologists from the University of Nevada, Reno, excavated the site and removed all artifacts from the station. Their research led to a better understanding of this important part of our heritage, and a historically accurate stabilization of the station was completed in 1997.