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.

 

Eight-Mile Station (Prairie Gate) (Spring Station)

DIRECTIONS: From Tippett, take Nevada 2 east for 20 miles to the Georgetta Ranch, site of Eight-Mile Station.

"Eight-Mile Station was a stop on the Overland Stage, named for its distance from Deep Creek, Utah. A simple mud-and-log-cabin station house was built here in July 1861. The Pony Express used the station during its last months of existence. It was here that the Goshute, or Overland, War began when Chief White Horse attacked the Overland Mail coach on March 22, 1863, near the station and later burned Eight-Mile Station. The attack proved to be the catalyst for a war that stretched 225 miles along the Overland Route, from Schell Creek to Salt Lake City. The war cost the Overland Stage Company sixteen men, seven stations, and 150 horses. The station was rebuilt in 1864 and served as a horse-exchange stop until 1869. No activity took place until the turn of the century, when Clel Georgetta, a prominent Nevada sheepman, settled here and established Eight-Mile Ranch. In 1938 Georgetta sold his ranch to the government for the Goshute Indian Reservation. Today the location of the old stage station is disputed. Many in the area believe that an old collapsed log dugout with a stone corral is the original station."

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