Name: Point of Rocks Stagecoach Station

County: Sweetwater

Authority Name: Point of Rocks Stagecoach Station (Wyo.) 

GNIS Entry

Longitude:  1084725W

Latitude: 414036N

Legal Description:

Elevation: 5046/1538

(ft/m)

Feature Type: Locale

Origin of Name:

Once known as Almond Stage Station, which was a relay point for the Ben Holliday Overland Stages in 1862.

Source: WPA

The coals of the Almond coal group are of poorer quality thans those of the Rock Spirngs coal group and as they occur close to the abundant supply of high-grade coal mined at Rock Springs they have not been much exploited. The only place where they have been mined is Point of Rocks, formerly called Almond.

Source: Guidebook of the Western United States

Other Names: Almond Stage Station, Rock Point 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Point of Rocks

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More Information:

Point of Rocks Stage Station   State Historic Site

http://www.wyomingheritage.org/pointOfRocks.html

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