Thirty-Two Mile Station took its name from its distance to Fort Kearny, 32 miles to the northwest. Russell, Majors & Waddell, owners of the Pony Express, built and furnished it, and in 1860 and 1861 it was a home station and a dinner stop for stagecoach passengers on the Oregon Trail road. It kept serving travelers after the Pony Express ended, until August 1864, when manager George Comstock and his family fled the Indian raids and the station was burned.

Visiting: a granite monument and a station marker post stand on the east side of South Osage Avenue, about 280 yards south of West Oak Ridge Road, about 5 miles southwest of Hastings. From Hastings, go 3 miles south on Adams Central Avenue, 1 mile west on Oak Ridge Road, then south on Osage. The bronze plaque was first placed in 1935 by Hastings Museum curator A.M. Brooking and local Boy Scouts; the Adams County Historical Society later reset it in granite from the old Hastings post office. The station site itself is private farmland.

Information: Adams County Historical Society, 402-463-5838.