Complex sentence: The fort lay along the Stockton Los Angeles Stage Road and was from 1858 a stagecoach station on the Butterfield Overland Mail following the same route as far as Visalia.
Split into simpler sentences: The fort lay along the Stockton Los Angeles Stage Road. From 1858, it was a stagecoach station on the Butterfield Overland Mail, which followed the same route as far as Visalia.