St. Thomas, Nevada: A History Uncovered

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Lost City reconstruction, 1939. The site of the Lost City is a short distance northeast of the town on the other side of the Muddy River. Courtesy of the Bureau of Reclamation, Office of Chief Engineer, Boulder Canyon Project, album 7, nara, Denver. Detail of Frémont’s 1848 map. St. Thomas was at the confluence shown just north of “R. Virgen” on the map. The dotted line shows Frémont’s route down the Virgen and across the Muddy River. Courtesy of unlv Special Collections. Pioneer irrigating ditch in the Moapa Valley. Note that it seems to go through gravel, which explains why so much water was lost. Courtesy of the Boulder City Museum. Jack Longstreet, one of the more colorful people to take up residence in St. Thomas after the Saints left. Courtesy of the Tonopah (NV) Daily Sun, August 13, 1905, 1:3–5. Proposed versus current reservation boundaries. Map by Brandon Hall. The Gentry Hotel. Courtesy of the Boulder City Museum. St. Thomas school. Courtesy of the Boulder City Museum. Automobile “traffic” in St. Thomas. This appears to be on the street near the Gentry Store and Gentry Hotel. Courtesy of the Boulder City Museum. Union Pacific Railroad crew dismantling rails near St. Thomas. Courtesy of unlv Special Collections. St. Thomas from the air as it is slowly being covered by Lake Mead, June 1938. The large foundation near the center of the photograph is that of the school. Courtesy of the Dorothy Dorothy Collection, unlv Special Collections. Last Day cover with a message from Whitmore to Sterling. The engraving reads “Last Day Cancellation—Boulder Dam Waters Sound ‘Taps’ for the Town of St. Thomas Nevada.” Courtesy of the Boulder City Museum. Albert Frehner speaking at the 1965 reunion to former St. Thomas residents and their descendants. Courtesy of the Relda Whitney Leavitt Collection, unlv Special Collections. ...