Remount Station
Mountain Home, Kerr County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Built during the 1850s in Waring by an unknown settler. Constructed with elm logs measuring eight inches wide. Offered food and lodging to stagecoach travelers between San Antonio and points west during the 1870s. Cabin was once the home of a settler who provided horses and saddles for Pony Express riders, so it became known as Remount Station and Stage Stop. Moved to Y.O. Ranch; restored. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1967
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
This modest cabin of eight-inch elm logs was raised in the 1850s in the Texas Hill Country, when the road west from San Antonio was a hard and dangerous journey. By the 1870s it offered food and lodging to stagecoach travelers, and it is remembered as a spot where riders could swap tired horses for fresh mounts, earning it the name Remount Station and Stage Stop. Later moved to the Y.O. Ranch and restored, it survives as a token of the overland travel era.
Why it matters
Way stations like this kept the stagecoach and mail lines of the frontier moving, knitting together the isolated settlements of the West before the railroad arrived.
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