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One of the reconstructed buildings found at the Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Park.

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Story of earliest Las Vegas found at Old Mormon Fort

Life was pretty difficult for Southern Nevada’s first non-Indian settlers. The year was 1855 when a group of 30 missionaries from the Church of Latter-day Saints established a small colony adjacent to the Las Vegas Springs.

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