King's Station

King's Station, also known as Moore's and Hollandsville, was a stagecoach station of the Butterfield Overland Mail 1st Division between 1858-1861 in southern California.

The adobe building also served other travelers on the , and other uses, until its 1928 destruction.

King's Station was located in the lower section of San Francisquito Canyon, in the Sierra Pelona Mountains. It was 10 miles (16 km) south of Widow Smith's Station near San Francisquito Pass, and was 12 miles (19 km) north of Lyons Station near the Santa Clara River.

The on San Francisquito Creek was first known as "Moore's" in 1854, and was located on the wagon route, on the section between the San Fernando Valley and the San Joaquin Valley.

By 1858, when the New York Herald reporter Waterman L. Ormsby passed through on the Butterfield Overland Mail it was known as King's Station. In 1860 the station was referred to as Hollandsville.

King's Station was 12 miles (19 km) north of Lyons Station (Hart's Station) near the Santa Clara River. It was 12 miles (19 km) south of Widow Smith's Station (Clayton's Station, Major Gordon's Station) in upper San Francisquito Canyon near San Francisquito Pass.

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