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The Granite Creek Ranch is located on Highway 34 before [[Fly Ranch]]. | The Granite Creek Ranch is located on Highway 34 before [[Fly Ranch]]. At one time, Granite Creek Ranch was known as Granite Creek Station. | ||
=== External Resources === | |||
* GNIS: [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:846116 Old Granite Creek Station (historical)] [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gazpublic/getgooglemap?p_lat=40.7126789&p_longi=-119.3376862&fid=846116 Map] | |||
** Citation: "Original township survey plats, published in the 1800's. 1895" | |||
** Alternate: Camp McKee, "'Nevada': 1881, scale 1 inch=24 miles. A photocopy with no additional information available, Nevada Historical Society document." | |||
* [https://secure.flickr.com/photos/heres-my-pix/7829114936/ Theresa and little Joe Ugalde at Granite Ranch July 1941] (Photo) | * [https://secure.flickr.com/photos/heres-my-pix/7829114936/ Theresa and little Joe Ugalde at Granite Ranch July 1941] (Photo) | ||
* Joe Blackwell, "[https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ihi04rPhay4rIhlWMHPaUtMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0 Granite Ranch Gerlach]" (Photo) | * Joe Blackwell, "[https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ihi04rPhay4rIhlWMHPaUtMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0 Granite Ranch Gerlach]" (Photo) | ||
Revision as of 16:24, 18 May 2013
The Granite Creek Ranch is located on Highway 34 before Fly Ranch. At one time, Granite Creek Ranch was known as Granite Creek Station.
External Resources
- GNIS: Old Granite Creek Station (historical) Map
- Citation: "Original township survey plats, published in the 1800's. 1895"
- Alternate: Camp McKee, "'Nevada': 1881, scale 1 inch=24 miles. A photocopy with no additional information available, Nevada Historical Society document."
- Theresa and little Joe Ugalde at Granite Ranch July 1941 (Photo)
- Joe Blackwell, "Granite Ranch Gerlach" (Photo)
- Sessions S. Wheeler, "The Black Rock Desert," p 157. The Granite Ranch was bought by Louis Gerlach in the 1890s.
- Joe Ugalde owned Granite Ranch for many years.
- Residents buy town, August 16, 1975, Victoria Advocate. Joe Ugalde quoted.
- San Francisco Chronicle, "Death on the Desert" (from the Reno Journal), August 11, 1889, p. 12. Louis Dean reports the death of a L.H. Long from Roseburg, Oregon. Long died within two miles of Granite Station. "He had wandered back within site of the ranch - probably delirious, looking for water. The ground was torn and dug up in every direction."