I doing research on Fletcher Nevada for something. Also known as Fletcher Station, or six mile station.

It was an old stagecoach stop between Bodie and Hawthorne. (and Aurora)

There is a spring and one stone building there, along with the remains of a stone wall (fence?) and a pond with BIG ASS FROGS.

I am looking for pics of the site and any history that someone may have.

if anyone has any info/pics, could you please post it up here? There is not much online..

Thanks in advance!

I will be blowing the dust off of some books tonight for you.

I will be blowing the dust off of some books tonight for you.

Thanks Steve!

I worked at a mine in that area last year. My wife was doing some research about some of the mines/claims in that area too. I'll see if she dug up anything. Search for Borealis, Aurora and/or Esmeralda mines. There might be some aireal/geologic maps that might help. Also Nevada Department of Wildlife has "guzzler" maps. That spring might be listed with them as a guzzler for wildlife.

Hope that helps

edit: She is going to grab some of the maps she has for me to look at tonight. Google earth might help too.

I just found this:

http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=37630

I knew that my brethren put a plaque there, (I am a Clamper) but that page is the FIRST time I ever saw a picture of the old post office building that was at that site... :smokin:

another site I never saw before:

http://backyardtraveler.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html

All I've found so far.

Book Reference:

Great Basin SUV Trails - Volume II Southwestern Nevada
by Roger and Loris Mitchell
Chapter 32 - Round About Road to Aurora
There are references and picture of a monument in the Aurora Cemetery to the Owners and Keepers of Fletcher Station.

Text:
"There was even a post office here between 1883 and 1912 and again between 1915 and 1918".

A few pictures & credits of Aurora and the area to both the author Roger Mitchell and the Central Nevada Museum.


I bought this book and met Roger Mitchell and his wife at the Off Road Expo a few years ago. I have used his "trail guides" from the La Sierra Press for reference for decades.

I am thinking Roger and this Central Nevada Museum in Tonopah would be your best bets to get some info.

If i get to the library, I will try to do a bit of research there as well. Desert Magazine might be a good source too. This periodical has had most everything in it through the years.

Sorry Kurt, I was hopeful of finding more references.

Steve

The Internet also show these results:

http://www.highdesertdrifter.com/fletcher.shtml

Myspace page. This guy lists his age as 103 and his hometown as Fletcher, NV:
http://www.myspace.com/125445414

And I see you are already his "friend" :)

That's all I've got so far.

why do you want to know? I have spent alot of time there and love the whole area, so I would like to know why you are interested in it. I am a recent addition around pirate and every day this place blows me away with info:D

and a pond with BIG ASS FROGS.


The frogs are not natural to the pond. I ran into someone that remembered that they used the pond to raise frogs to take to the high end restaraunts in the casinos back in the 1960s or so.

Oh and rumor has it that their is a ghost there too:D