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Sahara Las Vegas USA Las Vegas Natural History Museum Liberace himself opened the Liberace Museum on April 15, 1979, in Paradise, Nevada, a census-designated place in the Las Vegas Valley. 1964 Bonanza Air Lines Flight 114 , flying from Phoenix, Arizona to McCarran International Airport , crashes on a hill just southwest of Las Vegas during a ...
It contains the Old Mormon Fort (completed 1855), the first permanent structure built in what would become Las Vegas fifty years later. [3] In present-day Las Vegas, the site is at the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Washington Avenue, less than one mile north of the downtown area and Fremont Street.
The Las Vegas Mission was one of the earliest European settlements in the Las Vegas Valley. It was established by missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In May 1855, at the direction of then church president Brigham Young , thirty-two missionaries were sent to evangelize among Native Americans and ...
On May 15, 1905, Las Vegas officially was founded as a city when 110 acres (45 ha), in what later became downtown, were auctioned to ready buyers. Las Vegas was the driving force in the creation of Clark County, Nevada in 1909, and the city was incorporated in 1911 as a part of the county.
Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park: Las Vegas, Nevada: 1855 Fort Oldest building in Nevada [1] Reese–Johnson–Virgin House (aka Pink House) Genoa, Nevada: ca. 1855 Residence Oldest house in Genoa; Also known as the Pink House; it is a Gothic Revival style structure. [2] Stewart-Nye House: Carson City, Nevada: 1860 Residence
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 ...
Learn Las Vegas Black history, with guided tours of the Historic Westside, and check out some of Sin City's Black-owned restaurants.
Stigma Cities: The Reputation and History of Birmingham, San Francisco, and Las Vegas (University of Oklahoma Press, 2018). Moehring, Eugene P. Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930–2000 (2000). Moehring, Eugene, "The Urban Impact: Towns and Cities in Nevada's History," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 57 (2014): 177–200.