Laramie Military Road 1850. Perhaps Hockaday Stage Station in 1858. R14E. Pony Express Station 1860, N. H. Rising, prop. P.O. 1864, John Hazard, p.m. Colton's 1886 map. Tradition says that the creek was named because of difficulties encountered by Col. Albert Sidney Johnson's 1857 Expedition to Utah during the Mormon War.
Original cabin remains.
Atlas of Nemaha County 1887. Marcy 1859 and Burton 1860 identify it 2 miles southeast of Seneca. Burton suggests that the unidentified proprietor may have served meals to stage passengers. Laramie Military Road. 2nd county seat of Nemaha County 1857.