Arts and Culture in Searchlight, NV

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George Frederick Colton can be considered to be the father of Searchlight. The Searchlight claim made on May 6, 1897 ...

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The Clark County Museum and Searchlight Museum guild have created and installed the Searchlight Community Museu...

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Gold was discovered near here in 1897. In July 1898, the Searchlight Mining District was organized and in October the...

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On 3 Aug 1970 a Navy P-3A Orion crashed near here with the loss of all ten crewmen. In Memory of LT Timothy D. Bailin...

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The Techatticup Mine, located in 1861, was the most important mine in El Dorado Canyon. It produced millions of dolla...

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The Colorado River Historical Society, a nonprofit organization, runs the museum in what was once a Catholic ch...

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Originally known as Stage Field, this was an outlying airfield of Camp Ibis, one of the eleven camps established with...

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In 1940, Charley Kenyon and Art Schroeder located a cave above the Colorado River, about twelve miles northeast of th...

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Toward the Colorado River from this point runs El Dorado Canyon where occurred one of the biggest mining booms in Nev...

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The town of Nipton was born on February 9, 1905 with the coming of the first train on the newly constructed San Pedro...

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In 1855 Congress authorized $30,000 for camels as frontier military beast of burden because of their adaptability to ...

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Eldorado Canyon runs east from here to the Colorado River and was the site of one of Nevada's mining booms. Prospecto...

George Frederick Colton And The Duplex Mine