National Register of Historic Places
Fort Ruby
Fort Ruby is a historic place in Hobson, White Pine County, Nevada, listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966, and designated a National Historic Landmark. Its National Register reference number is 66000460.
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Fort Ruby
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About this place
What is Fort Ruby?
Fort Ruby, also known as Camp Ruby, was built in 1862 by the United States Army, during the American Civil War (1861–1865), in the "wilderness of eastern Nevada". in the region separated from the larger Utah Territory of 1850–1896, further east, then organized as the brief Nevada Territory of 1861–1864,. It protected both the California Trail and the later Overland Trail westward routes for overland mail and pioneer wagon route for stagecoaches and utilized for the short-lived Pony Express (1860–1861) horse riders with pouches of the United States Mail This was in order to maintain speedier links and communication between residents of the new state of California, on the West Coast on the Pacific Ocean and to the other states of the federal Union in the East. Later by the following year of 1861, the American-based Overland Telegraph Company with its trans-continental line was constructed laboriously at the beginning of the crucial Civil War, using the new 1844 invention of the electric telegraph, and subsequently the first of four transcontinental railroad lines in 1869.
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The record
Listing details
- Name
- Fort Ruby
- City
- Hobson
- County
- White Pine County
- State
- Nevada
- Listed on the National Register
- October 15, 1966
- NRIS reference number
- 66000460
- Resource type
- building
- National Historic Landmark
- Yes
- Coordinates
- 40.06772, -115.52955
When was Fort Ruby listed on the National Register?
Fort Ruby was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.
Where is Fort Ruby located?
Fort Ruby is located in Hobson, White Pine County, Nevada at approximately 40.06772, -115.52955. See the map above.
Is Fort Ruby a National Historic Landmark?
Yes. Fort Ruby is designated a National Historic Landmark, the highest federal recognition for a historic place.
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