Historical Markers of Elko County
- HM 3 - West End of Hastings Cutoff
- HM 45 - Humboldt Wells
- HM 46 - Pilot Peak
- HM 47 - Fort Halleck Military Reservation (1867-1886)
- HM 48 - Tuscarora
- HM 50 - Carlin Canyon
- HM 69 - Jarbidge
- HM 73 - Unknown Soldiers
- HM 106 - Elko
- HM 107 - Elko Airport (Terminus of the First Commercial Air Mail Route)
- HM 108 - Ruby Valley Pony Express Station (Reconstructed)
- HM 109 - Lamoille Valley
- HM 112 - Carlin
- HM 151 - Duck Valley Indian Reservation
- HM 153 - Jarbidge Community Hall
- HM 229 - Oil From Shale
- HM 244 - Dinner Station
- HM 251 - Diamondfield Jack Davis
- HM 260 - Contact
Nevada Landmarks Home Page
*HM 112*
-- Carlin --
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Location: Western Elko County, Carlin
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Date Conquered: 4/16/08
Quick Description: A marker remembering Carlin's long and extensive railroad past.
Signed: No -- Historically, this marker was signed at its original location. Signs used to exist along both lanes of US 40. After the marker's move, all signs were removed. (No signs exist today.)
NOTES: Here is another case of the 'bad directions drama' by the Preservation Office! Their outdated directions will tell you, the marker is "located at the junction of old U.S. Highway 40 and the road to the Carlin Mine"; in terms of "Old US 40", the Office means Chestnut Street and SR 766, Carlin's main intersection. Well, let me tell you there is no marker here! After a few trips out to Carlin, I finally found this marker on my own, only by way of a slight hunch that I had; keeping in pattern with the handful of markers in Nevada located at city parks, I decided to stroll through Carlin looking for its main city park. Without my hunch, #112 might still be known only to the residents of Carlin and lost for everybody else to find. You're welcome.
You can find Carlin's park the easy way, or the hard way. The easy way -- simply ask the locals, 'where's the park?'. The hard way -- following Carlin's lightly signed streets. Whatever way you choose, #112 requires a short diversion off of the main road (Chestnut Street) and into the heart of Carlin's small-town americana. The Carlin Park is located at the rear of town; head west from Carlin's main intersection, then make a left onto W. Hamilton Street. Follow W. Hamilton, past Bush Street, then make a left turn onto B Street. Trust me folks, you can't miss this one.
Full Description:
Carlin, the oldest town in present Elko County, was established as a railroad division point in December, 1868, by the Central Pacific Railroad. It was named by Central Pacific officials after William Passmore Carlin, a Union officer who served his country with distinction during and after the Civil War.
When the railroad construction crews reached the Carlin Meadows, always a favorite stopping place for wagon trains along the California Emigrant Trail, a townsite was laid out, and a large roundhouse and shops were erected.
During the 1870's and early 1880's, Carlin competed actively with Elko, Palisade and Winnemucca for the staging and freighting business of the many mining camps north and south of the railroad. In 1965, it became the principal shipping point for the nearby Carlin gold mine, the second largest gold producer in the U.S.
Carlin is still a principal division point on the Southern Pacific. During the period from 1906 until the early 1950's, Carlin was the principal icing station in Nevada for refrigerator cars on both the Southern and Western Pacific Railroads. (Western Pacific reached Carlin from the easterly in 1908, but through freight and passenger service was not inaugurated over this transcontinental line until 1910.)
Exact description as reads...
NDOT's growing preference for placing markers in county parks rings true for #112. 
