Fort Churchill State Historic Park

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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= Captain Joseph Stewart, Captain F.F. Flint
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designated= November 5, 1961cite 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, 1966cite 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]
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Fort Churchill State Historic Park is a 4,461 acre Nevada state park in Lyon County, Nevada, in the United 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 historic Fort Churchill and Sand Springs Toll Road. It is located on United States Route 95A, 8 miles south of United States Route 50.

Fort Churchill

Fort Churchill, named for Sylvester Churchill, was a U.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 on October 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] , at Historic American Building Survey.