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Pueblo Grande de Nevada

Clark County
  36.52559, -114.43378

"... In this case, #41 might be better located at the Lost City Museum just up the road. I mean, this backdrop of willows, dried in the summer, green and lush in the winter, is still far from the most inspiring scene you can bag of the Anasazi culture! I don't say this about many markers, but something just seems missing here. Such an inspiring chapter in early Nevada history needs an equally inspiring backdrop." -- Journal Entry, March 2009

Along SR 169, 2 miles south of Overton

Original Date Visited: 3/16/09

Signed: Both lanes of SR 169

Notes: The approach to this marker comes up warp fast and can be easily missed because of its lack of signage and odd location. Please be going no more than the posted 35MPH limit, especially in this highly residential area where the speed limit enforces everything. This town is more reminiscent of rural Utah so locals are usually very cautious of outsiders. Please be respectful.

  • Sign for Marker 41
  • About four miles directly behind this marker lies the exact site of The Lost City, one of North America earliest civilizations. Remnants of the city are submerged beneath the waters of Lake Mead
  • The Lost City Museum in Overton contains some of the best exhibits of Anasazi anywhere in North America
  • The Lost City, once home to the Anasazi in Nevada
  • Marker 41 plaque
  • About four miles directly behind this marker lies the exact site of The Lost City, one of North America earliest civilizations. Remnants of the city are submerged beneath the waters of Lake Mead

Exact Description:
Indians of a highly developed civilization lived throughout Moapa Valley from 300-1100 A.D. Several hundred ancient pithouses, campsites, rockshelters, salt mines and caves of Anasazi people make up what is commonly known as "Lost City." These people cultivated corn, beans and squash in fields irrigated by river water. They also gathered wild seeds and fruits and hunted widely for deer, antelope, desert bighorn sheep, small mammals and birds. They wove fine cotton cloth, fired beautifully painted and textured pottery and mined and traded salt and turquoise to coastal tribes for seashells. Early dwellings were circular pithouses below ground; later dwellings above ground were single-story adobes having up to 100 rooms.

Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam, flooded the most intensively developed portion of Lost City.

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