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The Plaza Hotel, built in 1881, on the Plaza of West Las Vegas New Mexico Insane Asylum in Las Vegas, 1904. Las Vegas was established in 1835 after a group of settlers received a land grant from the Mexican government. (The land had previously been granted to Luis María Cabeza de Baca, whose family later received a settlement.) The town was ...
Location of San Miguel County in New Mexico. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in San Miguel County, New Mexico. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates ...
The Funeral Mountains is a short, arid mountain range in the United States along the California-Nevada border approximately 100 mi (160 km) west of Las Vegas. The mountains are considered a subrange of the Amargosa Range that form the eastern wall of Death Valley. The crest of the range is within Death Valley National Park.
Former football star and celebrity criminal defendant O.J. Simpson was cremated Wednesday, the lawyer handling his estate said following his death last week at home in Las Vegas at age 76.
A Las Vegas funeral home 'accidentally' cremated the remains of a woman meant to be prepared for burial, her family alleged in a lawsuit this week. Woman killed in Las Vegas murder-suicide was ...
Turtlehead Mountain, also known as Turtlehead Peak, is located 17 miles (27 km) west of downtown Las Vegas in the Spring Mountains which are a subrange of the Great Basin Ranges. It is set on land administered by the Bureau of Land Management as the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area .
In 1903, citizens of Las Vegas petitioned for a bill to build a "Scenic Road," a wagon road joining the courthouse of Santa Fe with the courthouse of Las Vegas via the canyon of the Santa Fe River and over the mountain range. [10] The proposal, which called for using convict labor to complete this task, passed. [10]
Old Town Residential Historic District is a historic district dating back to 1840. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]The district plus the previously NRHP-listed Distrito de las Escuelas comprises the majority of the historic residential architecture of West Las Vegas, mostly adobe structures.