Living quarters for one company of approximately 100 men consisted of three buildings: two barracks and a combined mess hall/kitchen. By October 1860, six barracks were up, but only partially finished, and would remain this way for years. . . . — — Map (db m261603) HM
Samuel S. Buckland was a true pioneer. He settled here in 1859, began a ranching operation, established a station for the Overland Stage Company, and operated a tent hotel. He also constructed the first bridge across the Carson River downstream . . . — — Map (db m61066) HM
This two-room building served as the administrative headquarters and courtroom for Fort Churchill. Though small, the office would have included everything necessary for the officer in charge to conduct business and communicate beyond the fort. . . . — — Map (db m261605) HM
John C. Fremont and his expedition of 27 explorers rode south from Pyramid Lake and camped in this area of the Carson River on January 18, 1844 by a bend in the river, beneath the bluffs where Ft. Churchill is now located. After making observations . . . — — Map (db m189602) HM
Located approximately one mile south are the remains of a typical stage station of the period 1843 to 1869. An era of transition between the arrival of the first emigrant wagon trains and the completion of the Trans-Continental Railroad.
Desert . . . — — Map (db m89512) HM
In the fall of 1864, Lieutenant Colonel Charles McDermit anxiously awaited the arrival of three mountain howitzers. What eventually arrived at Fort Churchill were three-inch Army ordnance rifles. These rifled cannons boasted improved accuracy and . . . — — Map (db m261551) HM
From a French word meaning "large box," a caisson was a two-wheeled cart used by field artillery units during the Civil War to transport ammunition. It was attached to another two-wheeled cart, called a limber, by a long pole. This four-wheeled . . . — — Map (db m261557) HM
No known photographs of Fort Churchill from its period of operation exist today. Knowledge of the fort's physical aspects is limited to written descriptions and one lithographic drawing. The drawing, shown here, depicts adobe buildings arranged . . . — — Map (db m261561) HM
This plaque commemorates the efforts of the Nevada Sagebrush Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, to preserve the integrity of Nevada's first and largest military outpost.
Two hundred acres of the original, military reservation . . . — — Map (db m263604) HM
Fort Churchill has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark
under the provisions of the historic sites act of August 21, 1933 This site possesses exceptional value in commemorating and illustrating the history of the United States. . . . — — Map (db m261554) HM
Fort Churchill
Established in 1860, Fort Churchill played a key role in the history of this region. During the turbulent decade of the 1860s, troops from the fort helped keep peace between the native Paiute Indians and ever-encroaching . . . — — Map (db m261610) HM
Located in this isolated position on the south side of the grounds, construction of the guard house was completed in the spring of 1861. The building's two front rooms served as an office and as quarters for the guard on duty while the cell block . . . — — Map (db m261558) HM
The hospital was distinctly L-shaped and included a kitchen, three small rooms, and a cellar. The exact number of patients could the hospital could accommodate is unknown. Based on limited records, it
seems likely there were twenty or fewer . . . — — Map (db m261607) HM
Army regulations allowed for laundresses. The women who lived in this four-room structure provided essential, backbreaking laundry services for the men at Fort Churchill who valued "spit and polish". The Army provided living quarters and a . . . — — Map (db m261608) HM
In the spring of 1860, in the midst of the Pyramid Lake War, Robert "Pony Bob"
Haslam left Friday's Station (Lake Tahoe) with the eastbound mail and made his
way toward Buckland Station. When Pony Bob reached the Carson River, 60 miles
into . . . — — Map (db m171428) HM
Officers and their families lived in six 1½ story buildings made of adobe walls 20 inches thick. Wide porches sheltered three sides of each building and attached to the back was a woodshed and privy - no trampling through the weather for these . . . — — Map (db m261604) HM
120 celebrated riders rode 650,000 miles with only one rider killed by Indians, one schedule not completed and one mail lost.
Founders Owners Operators
Russell Majors Waddell
Buckland's Ranch Station, homesteaded in 1859, was a stop . . . — — Map (db m261553) HM
The Post Cemetery was the final resting place for soldiers killed in local battles and those who died from exposure, illness, and hardship. In February 1885, more than 15 years after the fort's abandonment, the remains of 44 soldiers were removed . . . — — Map (db m261552) HM
Originally built in 1865, on this site. It was first called Stockstore Station, then finally Stockton Well. It was one of the largest of the way stations since five trails converged at this point. One of the more famous was the old Carson . . . — — Map (db m167944) HM
The quartermaster and subsistence storehouses were deliberately situated near the commander's
office and within view of the guard house to discourage thievery. Both storehouses were built
with 20-inch thick adobe walls and included a finished . . . — — Map (db m261606) HM
