Rose Station and Sebastian Indian Reservation Historic Plaques

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Rose Station was located about a mile northeast of this location. The plaque was placed in 1941 with William B. Rose's children, Annie and William, in attendance. The plaque reads: "From 1853 to 1875 this site, originally a vaquero camp of the Sebastian Indian Reservation, was known as Rancho Canoa (trough). In 1875, Wm. B. Rose built an adobe stage station on the site of the Overland Mail way station established 1858. Rose Station was a stockmen's headquarters, post office, and polling place."

The Sebastian Indian Reservation plaque was placed in 1937 and reads: "The Sebastian or Tejon Indian Reservation headquarters 10 miles east of here was established in 1853 by Gen. Edward Fitzgerald Beale as one of several California reservations. The number of Indians quartered here varied from 500 to 2,000. General Beale acquired title to the area under Mexican land grant of 1843. In 1864 the U.S. government transferred the Indians to other reservations."

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