February 5, 2015
The historic Edward Bunker home, built in the late 1870s.
Southern Nevada’s history is intertwined with that of the Church of Latter Day Saints. In 1855, Mormon settlers were the first non-Indians to settle in Southern Nevada with the construction of a small adobe fort in a place known as Las Vegas (Spanish for “the meadows”).
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