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MOUNTAIN SPRINGS STATION SITE
In 1862-70, about a mile north of here Peter Larkin and Joe Stancliff used a stone house as a store from which ox teams pulled wagons up a 30% grade. The San Diego & Fort Yuma Turnpike Co. used the site as a toll road station until 1876. The crumbling house was replaced in 1917 by another still visible to the east. But road changes, beginning in 1878 and culminating in today's highway, have left the older stone house ruins inaccessible.
California Registered Historical Landmark No 194
First Registered June 20, 1935. Plaque placed by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with Squibob Chapter, E Clampus Vitus.
April 27, 1991
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