"What a difference a hundred yards makes. Well, I guess I'm sitting against the easternmost marker in the state of Nevada ... and I've only had to drive over seven hundred miles to conquer it. How fitting that I end my Clark County campaign at a superlative. From here, I'm heading east into Arizona to St. George where I'll pick up the route headed north into the west desert. I'm already made "arrangements" to set up camp near Snow Valley where it's here that my photo shoot will take place, right on the edge of the Escalante Desert. What's here? If I told you, I'd have to kill you. Being a journal has its privileges. #56 ... and Clark County, conquered!" -- March 2009

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In front of the Virgin Valley Heritage Museum -- Mesquite Las Vegas & Clark County   36.804050, -114.068590

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Original Date Visited: 3/16/09
Last Confirmed: 11/16/22
Signed: No

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Here's what you'll see!

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Exact Description:
Virgin Valley was traveled by Jedediah Smith in 1826 and by Fremont in 1844.

The valley served as the right-of-way for the Old Spanish Trail (1829-1848) and for the Morman road or southern route of travel to southern California.

The area was settled by pioneers of the Latter-Day Saints Church, who colonized Bunkerville in 1877 and Mesquite in 1880.

The Virgin River provided water for the development of the valley's agricultural resources.

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OLD SPANISH TRAIL (1829-1850)