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View of downtown Logandale during its early development, circa 1930s. The building is the Anderson family general store, still located in town but now known as the EL NOTREVO theater.
UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection, approximately 1900-1999. PH-00171. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Overton

325 N. Cooper St, Overton, NV 89040

The first known pioneers in Moana Valley were the Ancestral Puebloans, who lived in the valley from approximately 200 BC to 1150 AD. They created the famous "Lost City," also known as Pueblo Grande de Nevada, made of stone and adobe village complexes. The Southern Paiute (Nuwuvi) explored the area around 100 AD and remain in the region today, primarily near the headwaters of the Muddy River.

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints explored the area in 1864 on a mission to grow cotton in the “Muddy Valley on the Moapa River.” However, most returned to Utah due to tax disputes and hardships, then returned in 1881 and stayed. The legacy of this diverse cultural heritage and the rural history of the Moapa Valley is preserved today at the Historic Old Logandale School.

Learn More:

• https://www.nps.gov/lake/learn/the-lost-city.htm
• https://olshacs.org/
• https://www.unlv.edu/news/article/preserving-their-legacy-overlooked-history-migrant-family
• https://www.vegaspbs.org/blogs/outdoor-nevada-guides/hike-through-history-st-thomas-ghost-town/&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1782708967400545&usg=AOvVaw3EHuI6NIJyIFEWWpw2U_XG
• https://www.nps.gov/lake/learn/nature/st-thomas-nevada.htm

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Exterior of the Lost City Museum in Overton, Nevada, circa 1935.
Courtesy of the Clark County Musuem

For questions or comments, please reach out to the Clark County Museum at ccmuseum@clarkcountynv.gov.