• El Paso,  

  El Paso County

Butterfield Overland Mail

• The Butterfield Overland Mail was a mail and passenger stagecoach service that linked the Western and Eastern states. John Butterfield, president of the Overland Mail Company, won a federal government contact in 1857 to take and deliver mail twice weekly in both directions between St. Louis, Missouri and San Francisco, California. The service ran from September 1858 until March 1861, when events leading to the Civil War ended its operations.

• Address

  1858 Cottonwoods Dr

• Directions

  Butterfield Trail Golf Club, at clubhouse entrance

• Marker #

  15036

• Dedicated:

  2008

• Size, Type:

  27" x 42

• Code:

  -

• Latitude

  Stage service along the Butterfield Overland Mail terminated in 1861, although a Confederate mail service used the trail until 1862. The path later became the base for other routes, including roads and highways. Today, traces of the Upper Road remain visible on Fort Bliss and El Paso International Airport property. The trail’s legacy continues to live through the commerce and people which it brought to El Paso, and its bonding of the town to the rest of the United States.

• Longitude

  (2008)"