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.

Mount Airy

DIRECTIONS: From Austin, head west on U.S. 50 for 18 miles to Mount Airy.

"Some information has listed Mount Airy as a Pony Express station, but that is not the case. The station at Mount Airy did not come into existence until 1862-after the Pony Express had folded. Dry Wells, ten miles south, was the station site and also served the Overland Stage until the route was changed. The station was then moved to Mount Airy. The station, named for Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-92), an English astronomer, operated off and on until it was permanently closed in the 1890s. Today the faint crumbling walls of the station remain, as do a number of other stone foundations. One grave (a Mrs. Franklin, dead of smallpox in 1869) is also located at the site."

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