1 Look for this sign. Since the Navy closed it off, this is about all you're gonna see of Fairview.
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3 Then look for this vault
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5 People write things
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23 The road to Nevada Hills
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65 The Nevada Hills Mill
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83 Lots and lots of cans over by the mill- lubricating oil, perhaps? Couldn't all be pancake syrup.
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86 Sometimes all that stands between you and your Eternal Reward is a piece of red ribbon.
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102 Waiting out a thunderstorm in teh vault
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109 The Lambert Hoisting Engine Company of Newark, NJ will be happy to know that one of their products is still installed at Fairview, Nevada.
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120 My ex-father-in-law Duke Dalton would pick this up and say, "This is a glug," and you'd ask him "Whats a glug?" and he'd answer, "You throw it in the water and it'll go 'glug, glug, glug." Geez I loved that guy.
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136 Who'd a thunk when they built this bank vault we'd be cooking sausages in it?
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148 1907 advertisement in the Reno Evening gazette
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156 Fourth of July in Fairview - Courtesy the Churchill County Museum
157 Inside the Hoover Store - Courtesy the Churchill County Museum
158 The Hoover Store - Courtesy the Churchill County Museum
159 The mill - Courtesy the Churchill County Museum
160 - Courtesy the Churchill County Museum
161 Mr. Kent lounging in front of The Palace - Courtesy the Churchill County Museum
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167 Prospector wagon - Courtesy the Churchill County Museum
168 Fairview store - Courtesy the Churchill County Museum
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170 "Upper" Fairview aka Nevada hills - Courtesy the Churchill County Museum
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173 Water wagon - Courtesy the Churchill County Museum
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175 The Stratton home from the October 1955 "Desert Magazine" article
176 Sylvia and Ed Stratton from the October 1955 "Desert Magazine" article
177 The Strattons lived down the "street" from this. He used to work there.
178 Showing Fairview, Nevada Hills, and all the mining claims.
179 Here is a map I enhanced by removing all the mining claims.
180 A later map of the Nevada Hills area. I added some of these features in the map I enhanced.
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