Assorted Historic Buildings and Sites in the American West
Sites in Churchill County Nevada
Stillwater School Building
Public school was established in the Stillwater, Nevada area in 1872. Classes were held in the original, now unknown, location until the new Stillwater School, shown above, was built in 1918. The new building was constructed to the highest standards of the day. Classes 1-8 were taught in the three room schoolhouse until the last 8th grade class graduated on May 11, 1956. The school reportedly served approximately 40 students a year. After 1956, the school district consolidated and classes were held in Fallon some 20 miles away. The new district encompassed all of Churchill County, some 5000 square miles.
The Stillwater School Building has been maintained by Stillwater residents and used as a community facility although it is still owned by the school district. As it nears the century mark in 2018, it is in need of more help from the community. |
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Harmon School House
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Harmon School is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
National Register #89000055 Kirn and Harmon Roads Fallon, Nevada Built in 1915, the Harmon School is a ten acre, rural school located approximately six miles from the town of Fallon. The site incorporates a substantial, one-story, masonry school house, a modest, single story, frame teacherage and a single story, frame pumphouse. All three buildings are historically and functionally related and are considered contributing resources. The Harmon School is significant as an intact example of an early twentieth century, rural school complex. Erected between 1915-16, the Harmon School served as the Elementary School for the Harmon District of Churchill County from its construction until county school consolidation in 1956. |
Sheckler School
Sheckler School on approx. 4825 St. Clair Road, Churchill County, Nevada
The Sheckler School district was created around 1905. The building served as a school for several years until the number of students no longer warranted a school. Most districts in the county were combined by 1956. In later years, by the 1950s at least, the building was used as a community meeting center. Eventually it grew into decay and was demolished.
The Sheckler School district was created around 1905. The building served as a school for several years until the number of students no longer warranted a school. Most districts in the county were combined by 1956. In later years, by the 1950s at least, the building was used as a community meeting center. Eventually it grew into decay and was demolished.
Le Beau Gravesite
FOUR MILE FLAT 150 yards north of U.S. 50, some 25 miles East of Fallon.
Le BEAU, Jennie 9 years old. Died of diphtheria.
Le BEAU, Louise 6 years old. Died of diphtheria.
Le BEAU, Emma 3 years old. Died of diphtheria.
Reported to be children of Michael and Mary Louise Le BEAU and said to have died within days of each other in 1865.
Members of the family in Utah have been contacted by the Churchill County Museum and reported the following: The Le BEAU family owned a Store/Freight Station on what is now U.S. 50, which follows the Simpson Route through central Nevada, sometime prior to 1900. These three girls lived longer lives and are not buried in the grave along the highway. This is a case of folklore that began when a Highway Maintenance man found bones eroding out of the flat near the highway and reburied them, placing the original words with the cross "Known But To God", c1945. A new monument was placed in about 1983.
Nevertheless, the gravesite stands as a monument to the hard lives and deaths of pioneer people. A later plaque expresses this by saying, "Dedicated to the memory of the hundreds of men, women and children, and thousands of animals that perished on the Old Simpson Trail to California 1846 to the 1880s."
Caution should be used and it is recommended that the site just be observed from the highway because the salt flat can be boggy and even act like quicksand in wet weather.
Le BEAU, Jennie 9 years old. Died of diphtheria.
Le BEAU, Louise 6 years old. Died of diphtheria.
Le BEAU, Emma 3 years old. Died of diphtheria.
Reported to be children of Michael and Mary Louise Le BEAU and said to have died within days of each other in 1865.
Members of the family in Utah have been contacted by the Churchill County Museum and reported the following: The Le BEAU family owned a Store/Freight Station on what is now U.S. 50, which follows the Simpson Route through central Nevada, sometime prior to 1900. These three girls lived longer lives and are not buried in the grave along the highway. This is a case of folklore that began when a Highway Maintenance man found bones eroding out of the flat near the highway and reburied them, placing the original words with the cross "Known But To God", c1945. A new monument was placed in about 1983.
Nevertheless, the gravesite stands as a monument to the hard lives and deaths of pioneer people. A later plaque expresses this by saying, "Dedicated to the memory of the hundreds of men, women and children, and thousands of animals that perished on the Old Simpson Trail to California 1846 to the 1880s."
Caution should be used and it is recommended that the site just be observed from the highway because the salt flat can be boggy and even act like quicksand in wet weather.
