A log blacksmith shop and its sister station building, a two-story log house, originally stood on the Upper 96 Ranch four miles east of Fort McPherson near Sam Machette Canyon. In 1931, the log house was dismantled and taken to Gothenburg, Nebraska, and when the Lincoln County Historical Museum opened in 1976, the shop was relocated there. The station stop of which this building was part remains uncertain: it may have been a stop along the Pony Express route called Machette Station, Machette may instead be a corruption of McDonald Station, or it might have been the Dan Trout stage coach station mentioned in contemporary military reports. Pony Express records do not resolve the question, but the building was likely built in the 1860s, stood along the Oregon Trail, and was used by the Pony Express or the stage company or both. It is made of hewn cedar logs with chinking between the logs to seal out the elements, and a protective shingled roof now covers the original sod roof.