Directions: Highway 50E from Fallon 40 miles; Turn N on Dixie Valley Road (121) for about 19 miles; turn NE and go about 29 miles; Turn SE about 5 miles

From Fallon: 94 miles

What Was

Overland Mail Station and probably maybe a stop on the Pony Express. A National Park Service Pony Express Page says,

"Several sources mention Edwards' Creek as a station, including the 1861 mail contract. Townley notes the existence of possible ruins along the creek, where several conflicts between Indians and whites took place."

Helen Carlson, in her book Nevada Place Names, quotes J.H. Simpson explaining,

"I call the stream after one of my assitants, Mr. Edward Jagiello, a Polish gentleman; his surname being difficult of pronounciation, I have preferred his Christian name as the appellation."

Post Office: None

Newspaper: None

What is

One of the rare times when the USGS map was way off base. We found no ruins where the map said they would be- instead, we found remains of a rock building 1.87 miles NW of the reported location. So, we're assuming these ruins to be what's left of the Edwards Creek Overland Mail Station.