Editing Tejon Pass (section)

====Fort Tejon Pass====

After the establishment of [[Fort Tejon]] and the [[Stockton - Los Angeles Road]], the Portezuela de Castac began to be called the "Fort Tejon Pass." The rather poor wagon route of the old Tejon Pass route was generally abandoned, and eventually the Fort Tejon Pass took the shortened name it has today.<ref>[http://www.californiahistorian.com/articles/ridge-route.html ''The Ridge Route: the Long Road to Preservation''] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211222737/http://www.californiahistorian.com/articles/ridge-route.html |date=2012-02-11 }}; Scott, Harrison Irving; "The California Historian," www.californiahistorian.com website, accessed November 14, 2011; Quote: "The name Tejon formerly belonged to another pass 15 miles further east. Lieutenant [[Robert Stockton Williamson]] of the Pacific Railroad surveyed the area in 1853. His party crossed the Tehachapis by "one of the worst roads he ever saw." Hearing of a better road further west, he scouted it and found it would be far more practicable for wagons if the bulk of the traffic henceforth went that way. The name Tejon was transferred west to today's "Tejon Pass."</ref>

In 1858 the [[Butterfield Overland Mail in California|Butterfield Overland Mail]] stagecoach line ran through the pass on the Stockton - Los Angeles Road. The Butterfield Overland was discontinued in 1861 but was replaced by the Telegraph Stage Line, which stopped at almost all the former stations, including Gorman's, where the horses were changed. Six of them were used for the pull up from Bakersfield to Gorman's.<ref name=Latta>Frank F. Latta, ''Saga of Rancho El Tejón,'' Santa Cruz, California: Bear State Books, 1976.</ref>