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Valley Station, located 3.8 miles north along the county road, was built in 1859 as a stagecoach station of the Leavenworth and Pike Express. It served as a station on the Overland Trail to California from 1862 to 1867 and as an Indian War outpost from 1864 to 1865. It was once defended by a breastwork of sacks of shell corn.
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Sterling, Colorado · United States
