Fletcher

Historical marker location:

rural location, near crossroads of NFD26 and NFD28, Hawthorne, Nevada

( Marker is on National Forest Development Road 26, ½ mile National Forest Development Road 28, on the left.)

Marker installed: 1997

Mark Twain spent time in Nevada: The famous American author Mark Twain spent time in Nevada during the state's mining boom in the late 1800s. He worked for the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City, which was a mining boomtown at the time.