Ledlie | ||
MAP | 39° 30' 31"N, 117° 10' 17"W USGS Vigus Butte Quad |
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VISITED | 5/14/2005 | |
DIRECTIONS | Highway 50E from Fallon 101.5 miles;turn left onto dirt road (through gate) and proceed generally NE for about 1.5 miles. From Fallon: 103 miles |
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WHAT WAS |
Ledlie was a station on the Nevada Central Railroad. From here, cargo went out to several locations; the mines to the northwest, Ione and Grantsville, and in 1880 another line was planed to go south to Cloverdale in Nye County. Ledlie was named after the infamous Civil War Brigadier General James H. Ledlie, whom U.S. Grant described as "... the greatest coward of the Civil War..." due to his drunken performance (or lack thereof) at Petersburg, Virginia on July 30, 1864. Instead of leading his men in battle and providing for their needs, apparently he was lolling around in his tent, drunk, which led to their being slaughtered and his being forced to resign. After the war, he returned to engineering, and was chief engineer of railways in both California and Nevada, which made it easy to get a siding named after himself. PROPOSALS for GRADING AND BRIDGING NEVADA CENTRAL RAILWAY L.S. Foster, secretary of General Ledlie, the contractor of the Nevada central Railroad, arrived in Reno last night. He informed a Gazette reporter that forty miles of the road had been graded, and twenty miles of track are already laid. Track laying is going on at the rate of a mile a day. Gen. Ledlie is pushing forward with all possible speed.The whole road will be open for business by New YEars. ITs exact length will be 92 1/4 miles. They no sooner got this one done then they started talking about another one. The location of Ledlie lent itself to some businesses and services locating there. Austin Reveille: Joseph Blum, who has charge of the Ledlie Mill, has had machinery in running order and is now prepared to receive orders for grinding wheat. The ranchers can now bring their grain to the mill any time and unload it. Two cars of Ramboullet bucks came in to the LEdlie stock yards on the Nevada Central railroad this week. Bill nicholas took delivery of the bucks which are for the Heath-Hayden flocks. Alas, all good things must come to an end, and the Depression helped the Nevada Central out the door.
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WHAT IS |
While Paher mentions a single building still standing, we could find nothing save a single, solitary post marking the site. Fitting, perhaps. |
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