The Mission was utilized in a number of ways during the late 19th century: north of the mission was the site of Lopez Station for the Butterfield Stage Lines ; it served as a warehouse for the Porter Land and Water Company ; and in 1896, the quadrangle was used as a hog farm.

Other historical figures and famous people who have lived in Esopus include naturalist John Burroughs, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, Major Gen. Daniel Butterfield, who founded the American Express Company and wrote “ Taps ” in 1862, and 1904 Democratic nominee for president Alton Brooks Parker, a lawyer and judge, who lost to incumbent Theodore Roosevelt.

In addition to The New York Times Company, the Justice Department named the following defendants: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, president and publisher ; Harding Bancroft and Ivan Veit, executive vice presidents ; Francis Cox, James Goodale, Sydney Gruson, Walter Mattson, John McCabe, John Mortimer and James Reston, vice presidents ; John B. Oakes, editorial page editor ; A. M. Rosenthal, managing editor ; Daniel Schwarz, Sunday editor ; Clifton Daniel and Tom Wicker, associate editors ; Gerald Gold and Allan Siegal, assistant foreign editors ; Neil Sheehan, Hedrick Smith, E. W. Kenworthy and Fox Butterfield, reporters ; and Samuel Abt, a foreign desk copy editor.

He graduated in 1849 from Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he became a member of the Sigma Phi Society and was employed in various businesses in New York and the South, including the American Express Company, which had been co-founded by his father, John Warren Butterfield, an owner of the Overland Mail Company, stage-coaches, steamships, and telegraph lines.

Early in 1850 Wells formed Wells, Butterfield & Company with John Butterfield as the successor of Butterfield & Wasson.

The same year the American Express Company was formed as a consolidation of Wells & Company ; Livingston, Fargo & Company ; and Wells, Butterfield & Company.

When John Butterfield and other directors of American Express objected to extending the company's service to California, Wells organized Wells, Fargo & Company on March 18, 1852, to undertake the venture.

To compensate, the government contracted the Butterfield Company to carry mail between Los Angeles and San Francisco via the new wagon road over the Santa Susana Pass.

A few months later he was drawn back to Arizona by the gold rush at Gila City where he also worked for the Butterfield Overland Mail Company.

In about 1860, the firm now known as " Russell, Majors and Waddell " formed the " Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company " to get the contract to deliver mail between Missouri and California, which had previously been held by Butterfield Overland Mail which was delivering the mail in 25 days or more over a route that went through the South.

William Butterfield was selected as the architect, and a piece of land was bought in Margaret Street for £ 14, 500.

Starting in 1860, the American Civil War closed the heavily subsidized Butterfield Overland Mail stage Southern Route through the deserts of the American Southwest.

In 1858, the Butterfield Overland Mail stage line began operating with two relay stations in Throckmorton County.

The town housed Indian agents and was a stage stop ( Walker's Station ) for the Butterfield Overland Mail route.

Plumerville began as Plumer's Station, a stage station on the Fort Smith to Memphis branch of the Butterfield Overland Mail.

Russell Springs, founded in 1865, was the Eaton stop on the Butterfield Overland Dispatch stage line.

* John Warren Butterfield ( see also John Warren Butterfield ) ( Nov. 18, 1801-Nov. 14, 1869 ), born in Berne, went on to found the Butterfield Overland Mail, the stage that was an early operation of American Express and Wells Fargo.

The wooden bridge was used for a portion of the Butterfield Overland Mail stage route.

A Butterfield Overland Concord stagecoach would start from San Francisco and another overland stage from Tipton, Missouri, over the better roads.

At the western end, Denver to San Francisco, the stage company was taken over by Wells Fargo due to large debts that Butterfield owed.

In 1858 John Butterfield ( 1801 – 69 ) established a stage service that went from Saint Louis to San Francisco in 24 days along a southern route.

This is along the historic Butterfield Overland Mail stage route.

Camp Barkeley served as a World War II infantry division training center, while Fort Phantom Hill was a frontier outpost ans stop on the Butterfield stage route.

Pacheco Pass was the site of one of the stage stations on the route of the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach route which connected the Saint Louis, Missouri with San Francisco from 1858 until 1861.

It soon became part of a trade route for settlers in California known as the Butterfield Overland stage.

Steam locomotives soon replaced stage coaches across the United States, and the Butterfield Stage Route was no longer utilized.

Walker's Station, a stage stand on the Butterfield Overland Mail route, was located in Skullyville.

Kingston became a stopping place on the Butterfield Overland Mail route from 1858 to 1861 and a stage route between Stockton and Visalia after 1858.

* Clear Lake – A small lake near the southeast town line and south of Butterfield Lake.

They were preceded, among others, by the Butterfield Overland Stage, but the failure of the latter put the business in Wells Fargo's hands and led to a monopoly on overland traffic that lasted until 1869, when the transcontinental rail line was completed.

" The later Butterfield line suggested passengers take a pistol or a knife.

Although the Pony Express is often credited with being the first fast mail line across the North American continent to the Pacific coast, it was preceded by the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line, known as the " Jackass Mail " ( for the last 180 miles between Fort Yuma and San Diego accomplished on mule back instead of stagecoach ), which ran on a bi-monthly basis, 1500 miles between San Antonio, Texas and San Diego, California, from July 9, 1857 to December 1858 ; and by the Butterfield Overland Mail of George Chorpenning that predated the Pony Express by nearly three years.

* Butterfield Lake – A lake at the northeast town line, partly in the town.

* Millsite Lake – A lake by the northeast town line, south of Butterfield Lake.

It also contains El Capitan, long used as a landmark by people traveling along the old route later followed by the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line.

In 1858 the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line ran through the pass.

Reed then built a substantial log house that in 1858 became a stop for the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line.

( at 0 – 0 Butterfield kept Grimsby on level terms by clearing an Emile Heskey header off the line ).

In 1861 John Butterfield, who since 1858 had been using the Butterfield Overland Mail, also switched to the Central Route to avoid traveling through hostile territories during the American Civil War.

The Butterfield Overland Mail in 1858 used Emigrant's Crossing, where exposed rocks afford one of the few places safe for fording the Pecos River.

The Butterfield Overland Mail crossed the area 1858 – 1861.

The Butterfield Overland Mail ran through the area from 1858 to 1861.

Its varied history includes the Mulhollen Station, through which mail traveled with the Butterfield Stage Line in 1858.

Sheriff David A. Butterfield was forced to secure the county's books and records for Manhattan, and Manhattan was finally officially declared the county seat in 1858.

A Butterfield Overland Mail route was established through the county in 1858, causing more families to settle there.

In 1858, it became a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail.

In 1858 the Butterfield Overland Mail passed through the area stopping at Head of Cross Creek Station, 4 miles northwest of Goshen, at the head of the place where Cross Creek divided into two branches for a time, making it easier to cross them separately.

It was also the site of the Tule River Stage Station for the Butterfield Overland Mail, from 1858 to 1861.

Tipton was an eastern terminus of the Butterfield Overland Mail when it was launched in 1858.

The first hint of prosperity arrived with the Butterfield Stagecoach in September 1858, bringing freight, passengers, and mail.

The Butterfield Overland Mail route used White's Westview Inn as its Davidson Station on its trail from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast from 1858 to 1861.

The area was populated as early as 1858, when the Butterfield Overland Mail established a Grape Creek station on the east bank of the east fork of Grape Creek near the present-day community.

By 1858, the Butterfield Overland Stage began utilizing the road offering passage to California.

Butterfield Overland Stage began rolling on September 15, 1858, when the twice-weekly mail service began.

In 1858, Pinery Station was constructed near Pine Springs for the Butterfield Overland Mail.