Yank's Station: Where the Pony Express Crossed into California

The community now called Meyers sits at sixty-three hundred feet in the Sierra Nevada, and it was here that Pony Express riders made one of their last California stops before crossing into Nevada.

Ephraim Clement, nicknamed Yank, operated a trading post and stage stop along the Placerville-to-Carson road from the eighteen fifties. In the spring of eighteen sixty, Pony Express riders such as Warren Upson galloped into Yank's Station, swapped horses, and pushed on toward Friday's Station in Nevada, carrying the mochila east. The station served as a remount point until October of eighteen sixty-one, when the transcontinental telegraph made the Pony Express obsolete almost overnight.

The site later became the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across America. The property changed hands over the years and eventually gave the community the name Meyers, after a later owner. California Historical Landmark seven oh eight marks the spot.