Written/sketched in 2003: 137 Mile House sits back 100 feet or so from the modern Cariboo Highway looking much as it must have in the days of teamsters and stagecoaches. I thought it made the best surviving tableau of a Cariboo roadhouse: main house with a large "hotel" addition, squared-log construction, cottonwood tree to shade out the hot afternoon sun, paddocks divided out with pole fencing, barns and outbuildings. According to Irene Strangoe's Cariboo-Chilcotin People & Places (Heritage House, 1994), it is the oldest of the original log roadhouses left along the modern highway. The oldest part of the property, a pyramid-roofed log building that was the original homestead, was built about 1862 by William Wright and his son John and is still used as a garage (it is on the far side of the house in the picture above). The main house, built by either the Wrights or the McCarthys, dates from a decade or so later and was not a stopping house, rather a way station for teamsters.