This historic marker designates the area in Van Buren (Crawford County) where coaches passed along part of the 2,812-mile route of the Butterfield Overland Express, which was established in 1857. The route from St. Louis, Missouri, to San Francisco, California, went down Van Buren’s Main Street and crossed the Arkansas River near this marker.
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