- Fort Churchill State Historic Park
Infobox_nrhp | name =Fort Churchill
nrhp_type =nhl
caption =
nearest_city=Silver Springs, Nevada
lat_degrees = 39
lat_minutes = 17
lat_seconds = 33
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 119
long_minutes = 16
long_seconds = 14
long_direction = W
locmapin=Nevada
area =
built =1860
architect= CaptainJoseph Stewart , CaptainF.F. Flint
architecture=
designated=November 5 ,1961 cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=320&ResourceType=Site
title=Fort Churchill |accessdate=2007-10-03|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added =October 15 ,1966 cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = State
refnum=66000456Fort Churchill State Historic Park is a 4,461 acre
Nevada state park in Lyon County,Nevada , in theUnited States . Located south of the town of Silver Springs, it is in the Central Nevada Region of Nevada State Parks, and is one of seven National Historic Landmarks in the state of Nevada. The site is one end of the historicFort Churchill and Sand Springs Toll Road . It is located on United States Route 95A, 8 miles south ofUnited States Route 50 .Fort Churchill
Fort Churchill, named for
Sylvester Churchill , was aU.S. Army fort built in 1861 to provide protection for early settlers. It was abandoned in 1869 with the State of Nevada obtaining control of the site onOctober 6 ,1932 .It was declared a
National Historic Landmark in 1961.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000456.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: ] |359 KiB |date=January, 1978 |author=Marilynn Larew |publisher=National Park Service. PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/66000456.pdf Accompanying 2 photos, exterior, from 1966.] |452 KiB ] The remains of the fort are decaying adobe ruins.Twice a year the
Nevada Civil War Volunteers put on a civil war encampment at Fort Churchill.References
External links and sources
* [http://parks.nv.gov/fc.htm Fort Churchill State Historic Park website]
* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.nv0044 Fort Churchill (Ruins), U.S. 95-A, Old Buckland Ranch, Churchill vicinity, Lyon County, NV: 6 photos] , atHistoric American Building Survey .
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