Lovelock, Nevada

The town came about with the building of the Central Pacific Railroad through the area. George Lovelock provided 85 acres for the site and the depot was therefore named 'Lovelock" after him.

The Central Pacific Railroad Depot was built in 1880.  The building consists of two wood frame sections containing the passenger waiting room, agent's office and agent's quarters.  The station was a regular stop for transcontinental train traffic.  The station operated until the early 1990's, when it was closed. When what was now the Union Pacific Railroad announced plans to tear the depot down the City of Lovelock expressed interest in the building. The railroad signed over the building and a $42,500 donation, the projected cost of demolition.

Locking your love is the ancient Chinese custom of symbolically locking one's love on a never-ending chain. You can forever lock your love with anyone who is important in your life. 

Lovelock Cave

 Northern Paiute American Indians  used Lovelock Cave as a sacred place, storing thousands and thousands of ancient artifacts, with it’s heaviest use taking place between 2,000 B.C. and 1,000 A.D. The first archaeological dig was performed in 1912, lasting intermittently throughout the next 60 years.  While the quantity of irreplaceable Paiute artifacts are too innumerable to list, the most significant antiquity recovered was a massive amount of duck decoys. Eleven decoys were recovered, eight being totally complete and three unfinished. Of the completed cache, the decoys were made of bundled tule, covered in feathers and painted. The decoys are estimated to have been made circa 400 B.C.-100 A.D.  These tule duck decoys artifacts were essentially untouched for over 2000 years and are the oldest duck decoys of their kind found anywhere on Earth.  All 11 specimens are safely housed as part of a collection at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC.

Look who's waiting back at the Jeep for us

 Unfortunately the weather in Locklock didn't cooperate with us.   We got rained out on our backroads Jeepin day.