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Old Spanish Trail Marker, Las Vegas, Nevada, near Whitney Mesa. In 2001, the section of the Trail that runs across Nevada from the Arizona border to California was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Old Spanish Trail/Mormon Road Historic District. [17] [18]
The first non-Native American crossing Las Vegas Springs was Raphael Rivera in 1829. He was the Mexican scout for the expedition of Antonio Armijo who pioneered the Old Spanish Trail between New Mexico and California. [7] Later, American traveler John C. Fremont and Kit Carson camped at the springs in 1844. [2]
In 1829, Mexican trader and explorer Antonio Armijo led a group consisting of 60 men and 100 mules along the Old Spanish Trail from modern day New Mexico to California. . Along the way, the group stopped in the what would become Las Vegas and noted the natural water sources, now referred to as the Las Vegas Springs, which supported extensive vegetation such as grasses and mesquite
The Old Spanish National Historic Trail went through the pass and along the center-south of Pahrump Valley on a route from southwest Las Vegas. 36°01′01″N 115°30′15″W / 36.01694°N 115.50417°W / 36.01694; -115
Mountain Springs Summit was the mountain pass taken by this route over the Spring Mountains between the Pahrump Valley and the Las Vegas Springs in the Las Vegas Valley on the Old Spanish Trail. [3]: 265–270 After 1848 it was followed by wagon trains on the Mormon Road, traveling between Southern California and Salt Lake City, Utah.
Kelsey Plum headed to Los Angeles and Jewell Loyd to Las Vegas in blockbuster 3-way deal: AP source. See all sports. ... Trail Blazers POR. 17-29. Tue Jan 28, 10:00 ...
Mormon Road, also known to the 49ers as the Southern Route, of the California Trail in the Western United States, was a seasonal wagon road pioneered by a Mormon party from Salt Lake City, Utah led by Jefferson Hunt, that followed the route of Spanish explorers and the Old Spanish Trail across southwestern Utah, northwestern Arizona, southern Nevada and the Mojave Desert of California to Los ...
A decade-long centennial celebration was planned to begin in 2019 and end with a 2029 motorcade from St. Augustine to San Diego. The volunteer Old Spanish Trail Centennial Celebration Association (OST100) is collecting oral histories, travel logs and news articles related to the Old Spanish Trail to conserve the roadways, businesses and historic sites of the original auto highway.