39° 30' 13"N, 117° 22' 46"W USGS Mount Airy Quad

Paher says this was an Overland Mail stage station from 1861 to until 1869. The station probably remained open for another twenty years after that.

Mt Airy Station was an improvement over the waterless Overland station it replaced.

Indeed , previous to the Austin silver discovery in May 1862, " the Overland Mail created all the civilized life of the central and eastern part of the territory of Nevada " as Thompson and West state it . All the places of white habitation and activity in the entire Reese River - Crescent Valley area at that time were to be found along the Overland Stage road, where the company's men and their families were engaged in the care and maintenance of the stage stations, equipment , and the large herds of draft stock needed in its operation .
After the inception of staging operations in July 1861 , the old dry Pony Express station in the Shoshone Range west of Reese River was moved to Mt. Airy Pass (see photo graph 1 ) , and after Jacobsville was abandoned as the Lander County seat in favor of Austin in 1863 , the stage station there was moved two miles westward , to the east bank of Reese River . At about the same time , the Simpson Park -Midas Canyon section of the stage road was abandoned, and the road was rerouted to run over Austin Summit and down Pony Canyon through Austin .
-WATER and RELATED LAND RESOURSES HUMBOLDT RIVER BASIN, Report Number 5, NORTH FORK SUB BASIN, August 1963

Silver was discovered in the Reese River district in May 1862, and by the spring of 1863, the area was experiencing a boom not unlike that of the Comstock in 1860. Travellers between Virginia City and Austin reported the roads clogged with wagons; at least five companies were running passenger coaches between Virginia City and Austin. At this time a new road began to be widely used in reaching the Reese River district. This road branched off the old Overland route at Jacobsville turning north through Mount Airy and New Pass then south to Edward's Creek and Cold Springs station before returning to the old route near Middle Gate.
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS
of the
ROCK CREEK STAGE AND TELEGRAPH STATIONS
by
Donald L. Hardesty
REPORT PREPARED
for the
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
1978

We were deep into cricket season when we visited Mount Airy- the little beggars were everywhere. This is a nice location- there is a spring with a little swampy area, although there were several hundred drowned crickets in it which made it unpleasant for swimming. Still, a perfect place for a little station out in the middle of nowhere. A couple of rock ruins are all that's left of Mount Airy, and the lonely grave of Mrs. Franklin, who reportedly died of smallpox.