NHS Artown - On The GO! 2025

In May 1855, a group of Mormon missionaries left Salt Lake City to establish a Mission at Las Vegas in what was then the western New Mexico Territory. They arrived at the Las Vegas site in June and began to plant crops and build a “fort” for living quarters. Almost a year later, in April 1856, they discovered lead in the Spring Mountains northwest of the Mission and near Cottonwood Springs. Why was a productive mine abandoned?

Learn about this fascinating Nevada mine with guest speaker Joe Tingley, an NHS Docent. He worked as a research geologist at the Nevada Bureau of Mining and Geology until his retirement in 2004. Tingley authored several geologic guidebooks for NBMG.