Mud Springs Station

Eight miles northwest of here stood Mud Springs Station, a sod-and-log Overland Trail stop with a telegraph relay. In February of eighteen sixty-five, following the Sand Creek Massacre three months earlier, a force of five hundred to a thousand Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors laid siege to the station for two days. Only fourteen men were inside when the attack began.

The telegraph operator managed to send distress signals to Fort Mitchell before the lines were cut. Reinforcements arrived through the night, and the warriors eventually withdrew. The battle was part of a broader uprising across the Nebraska Panhandle that winter, as allied tribes retaliated for Sand Creek.

The station site is preserved today as a historic site.