NNevada - Ft. Churchill

Nevada state park. The new parts of the park have been put in their own albums: Buckland Station in a separate album, and the Carson River drainage from US 95A down to Lahontan Reservoir in the Carson River album.
Ft. Churchill was built in the early 1860s to (a) intimidate Confederate sympathizers; and (b) intimidate the local Paiutes. It succeeded on both counts. The fort was abandoned by 1870 and sold for scrap. The timbers were salvaged, but the rest of the buildings, made of adobe, fell into ruin. The well-defined ruins are actually 1930s restorations--the original buildings are now just heaps of mud.

Nevada state park. The new parts of the park have been put in their own albums: Buckland Station in a separate album, and the Carson River drainage from US 95A down to Lahontan Reservoir in the Carson River album.
Ft. Churchill was built in the early 1860s to (a) intimidate Confederate sympathizers; and (b) intimidate the local Paiutes. It succeeded on both counts. The fort was abandoned by 1…  (read more)

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