# The Waystation Source page: https://carsonriverresorts.com/stay/waystation One room with two full beds and a stall shower, a front porch to sit on, and no kitchen past a dorm fridge, a microwave and a coffee pot — the least expensive cabin on the row, and the one to take when you plan on eating in town or out of the store. It is named for what this county ran on: Jacob Markley's toll bridge started Markleeville in 1861, and for about five weeks in 1860 the Pony Express changed horses at Woodfords, eight miles north. Sleeps 4 — two full beds · one bath with a stall shower No kitchen — dorm fridge, microwave, and a coffee pot · fan for summer, electric tabletop heater for winter · front patio with porch seating (no backyard) The name covers a whole era. In September 1861 Jacob Markley staked 160 acres beside Markleeville Creek and built the thing every new settlement actually runs on: a toll bridge, collecting fees from traffic bound for the Silver Mountain mines. The Johnson toll road carried that same traffic across the East Fork at the crossing everyone now calls Hangman's Bridge, a mile downstream of this porch; by 1865 its proprietors were readying it for the stages. The flashiest way station in county history lasted about five weeks. In April 1860, Cary's Barn at Woodfords became a Pony Express remount station — in the service's first week, rider Warren Upson fought over the Sierra through a blinding snowstorm — before the route shifted north for good. The barn's site is California Historical Landmark No. 805. The stage roads outlived the ponies. Up at Silver Mountain, the stage stopped at a big tree by the road — the same stop where, as the story goes, Nettie Chalmers walked down to wait every day for nineteen years. Cabin №6 next door carries that story. The resort still plays the part: the last store and services before Monitor Pass, the place to top up before the road climbs. Travelers have been stopping at this bend for a hundred and sixty years. --- Carson River Resort · 12399 Highway 89, Markleeville, CA 96120 · (530) 694-2229 · store open 8am to 6pm, every day. Machine-readable facts, units and policies: https://carsonriverresorts.com/api/agent/index.json