Bell Station, California

Bell Station (or Bell's Station) is an unincorporated community located along State Route 152 between Casa de Fruta and Pacheco Pass near the southeast extent of Santa Clara County, California.

The location was originally called Hollenbeck's Station, (possibly after the namesake of the Sunnyvale street of the same name).

[1] It was renamed for Lafayette F. Bell, who had built a saloon at the entrance to a road over Pacheco Pass.

Later, Bell bought the road over Pacheco Pass from Andrew Firebaugh and began charging a toll for passage.

[2] The stagecoach route to San Francisco from the American midwest was known to have stops every ten miles or so along its length.