Please remember to exercise caution when exploring Nevada's Ghost Towns & Mining Camps. Open shafts, drifts going into mountainsides, and old buildings, are all DANGEROUS. Be aware of your surroundings, and let someone know where you are, especially if your plans change.

Ledlie

DIRECTIONS: From Austin, take U.S. 50 west for 5.5 miles. Exit right at Jacobsville historical marker. Follow for 0.75 mile, then bear right and continue on for 1 mile to Ledlie.

"Ledlie was an important stop on the Nevada Central Railroad. The station was named after James Ledlie, one of the railroad's directors. Its location made Ledlie a natural shipping center as soon as the railroad arrived in 1880. As a result of demand for freight teams, as many as 250 mules were kept here. Supplies and mining equipment were shipped to budding mining camps like Ione, Grantsville, Jefferson, and Cloverdale via the Ledlie shipping yards. The huge volume of cargo inspired plans in late 1880 to construct a new railroad, the Ledlie and Cloverdale. An eighty-mile railroad bed was surveyed and portions were graded before the project was dropped in 1881. By 1890 the volume of freight had dropped drastically and Ledlie's importance faded. In 1906, however, the station was bustling once again; supplies for the booming camp of Skookum were shipped via Ledlie. Once Skookum folded in 1910, Ledlie was used only sparingly. When the Nevada Central Railroad folded for good in 1938, Ledlie ceased to exist. A town never really materialized here, since most workers lived in Austin. Today only a small collapsed wooden building and a solitary telegraph pole mark the site."

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