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Overton in Clark County, Nevada — The American Mountains (Southwest)
 

Lost City Museum

 
 
Lost City Museum Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Karen Key, October 2, 2007
1. Lost City Museum Marker
Inscription. This property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Museum was built in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps to display artifacts of prehistoric Native American cultures.
 
Erected 1935.
 
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Anthropology & ArchaeologyCharity & Public WorkNative Americans. In addition, it is included in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1935.
 
Location. 36° 31.887′ N, 114° 26.467′ W. Marker is in Overton, Nevada, in Clark County. Marker can be reached from South Moapa Valley Boulevard. The marker is located inside the Lost City Museum, which is open daily from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM. Admission is $5, free for members and children under 17. Admission includes viewing the museum galleries and two twenty minute films (optional). Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 721 S Moapa Valley Boulevard, Overton NV 89040, United States of America. Touch for directions.
 
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 7 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Fay Perkins, Sr. (here, next to this marker); Pueblo Grande de Nevada (within shouting distance of this marker); Moapa Valley Pioneers (within shouting distance of this marker); Early Settlements in the Moapa Valley
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(approx. half a mile away); Overton (approx. 0.6 miles away); Pioneers (approx. 0.8 miles away); St. Thomas (approx. 5.4 miles away); Valley of Fire Behind the Camera (approx. 6.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Overton.
 
More about this marker. The marker is inside the front gallery.
 
Regarding Lost City Museum. The Lost City Museum is open to the public. It has an admission fee of $5 for adults age 18+.
 
Also see . . .
1. The First 100 Persons Who Shaped Southern Nevada. An account of finding the Lost City in 1924. (Submitted on December 8, 2007, by Karen Key of Sacramento, California.) 

2. Civilian Conservation Corps. (Submitted on December 8, 2007, by Karen Key of Sacramento, California.)
 
Museum Entrance image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Karen Key, October 2, 2007
2. Museum Entrance
Museum Entrance - Closeup of Sign image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Karen Key, October 2, 2007
3. Museum Entrance - Closeup of Sign
Pueblo Grande de Nevada

Existing today as a 30 mile-long series of adobe ruins, this "Lost City" was once the home of an ancient Anasazi Indian civilization. Beginning with the basket makers (300 B.C.-A.D.700) & followed by the the pueblos (A.D.700-1150) this valley was inhabited by a sedentary population of Anasazi farmers. They grew corn beans, squash and cotton on the valley floor (the high ground was used for housing) watered by the Muddy River which sources at Warm Springs, 25 miles north of here. Living in pithouses and later multi-room adobe pueblos, these people maintained a rich culture as manifest by archaeological records they left behind. The Lost City Museum was built in 1935 to preserve the remains of this great civilization which suddenly disappeared CA. A.D.1150, possibly due to severe, widespread drought.
Lost City Museum
Anasazi Pueblos (located behind museum) image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Karen Key, October 2, 2007
4. Anasazi Pueblos (located behind museum)
These pueblo houses and storage units were reconstructed upon prehistoric foundations excavated by the C.C.C. in 1935.
Building a Museum image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Karen Key, October 2, 2007
5. Building a Museum
Part of the CCC work assignment was to build a museum so visitors could view the artifacts. $5,900 was allocated by Congress for construction. M.R. Harrington designed the museum, and with the CCC crews providing the labor, construction began in 1934. Local material was used to make sun-dried adobe brick and stone was collected in the Valley of Fire for the floors. Even before the walls were complete the sign was hung with the original museum name: Boulder Dam Park Museum.
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on February 7, 2023. It was originally submitted on December 8, 2007, by Karen Key of Sacramento, California. This page has been viewed 1,740 times since then and 8 times this year. Last updated on March 1, 2020. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on December 8, 2007, by Karen Key of Sacramento, California. • J. Makali Bruton was the editor who published this page.

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