History

Explorers

• John Charles Frémont

Civil War era Camps and Forts

• Camp McKee : Camp McKee (1865 - 1866), near Gerlach. Originally called Detachment at Granite Creek, the Army occupied the Granite Creek Station after Indians burned it and killed its employees. Located north of town and east of Granite Mountain.

• Camp Deep Hole (1865), near Gerlach. An abandoned stage station that became a NV Cavalry outpost. Located several miles northwest of town.

• Camp Black (1865), Massacre Lake. A temporary Army post for the CA Volunteers in the extreme northwest part of the state.

• Camp Soldiers Meadow (1862), near High Rock Lake. A temporary Army post 20 miles south of Camp McGarry.

• Fort McGarry (1865 - 1868), Summit Lake Indian Reservation. Located on the Applegate Cutoff to Oregon. Originally called Camp at Summit Lake, then Camp McGarry until 1867. It was abandoned and the land given to the Indian Reservation in 1871. Ruins remain.

• Camp Smoke Creek (1862 - 1864), near Robbers Roost. A temporary Army post that was intermittently occupied. Located near the Smoke Creek Depot (or Smoke Creek Station) on the Honey Lake stage route. The site is not shown on most maps, but it was located five miles from the state line west of Smoke Creek Desert and north of the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation.