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and reestablish the ferry there. Carleton then intended to send on from there three cavalry companies and one of infantry to the Mormon fort at Las Vegas, and establish a post called Fort Baker. This was in preparation for an advance to Salt Lake City the following year. The move to reoccupy Fort
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re-occupied the fort and started the irrigation works, renaming the area to Los Vegas Rancho (later renamed Las Vegas in 1902). Gass defaulted on a loan to Archibald Stewart in 1881 and lost the ranch, with Stewart and his wife Helen becoming the new caretakers. In 1902, William A. Clark's
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traveled on the route from Fort Douglas to Fort Mojave passing through Las Vegas, stopping for water there on June 10. No mention is made of any garrison there. Presumably the post was never garrisoned during the Civil War.
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walls that extended for 150 feet (46 m). While called a fort, it was never home to any military troops but like many Mormon forts provided a defense and shelter for local settlers and travelers.
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to evict the Confederates there the next year. However, Fort Mojave was later reoccupied in 1863 by Union troops from California. In 1864, a road survey party led by Captain Price, Company M,
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Ownership of the fort and the land around it changed hands many times and it had several close calls with destruction. In 1955, the land was acquired by the Las Vegas
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acquired the property from Helen Stewart along with most of what is now downtown Las Vegas, transferring most of the company's land to the now defunct
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written to Pacific Department headquarters, December 23, 1861, Carleton mentions his plan to send an advance party of seven companies from
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Part of the original fort, later remodeled and used as a testing laboratory by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
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A $ 4.5 million renovation and visitor center, designed by assemblageSTUDIO, was completed in 2005. A
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Indians it clearly indicates he means Fort Mojave. He also indicates it will then draw supplies from
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arrived on June 14, 1855, and selected a site, along one of the creeks that flowed from the
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Gene Amberg, Supervisor of Federal Aid Programs, Planning Dept. (November 8, 1971).
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fifty years later. In present-day Las Vegas, the site is at the southeast corner of
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Carleton calls it Fort Navajo, but by referring to the ferry and Major
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on February 1, 1972. The site is memorialized with a tablet erected by
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Las Vegas High School Academic Building, Gymnasium, and Frazier Hall
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Gold Strike Canyon-Sugarloaf Mountain Traditional Cultural Property
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Records of California Men in the War of the Rebellion 1861 to 1867
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American Civil War on the National Register of Historic Places
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The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: The Desert States
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Forts on the National Register of Historic Places in Nevada
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Nevada
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troops was assigned to protect the settlers at the fort.
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National Register of Historic Place Inventory Nomination
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and Washington Avenue, less than one mile north of the
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The fort was surrounded by 14-foot (4.3 m) high
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Mojave never occurred as planned because Carleton's
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Fort walls
Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park is located in Downtown Las Vegas
Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park is located in Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
Coordinates
36°10′50″N 115°08′01″W / 36.18056°N 115.13361°W / 36.18056; -115.13361
Nevada state historic park
Official website
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nevada Historical Marker

Las Vegas, Nevada
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state park
Nevada
Las Vegas
Las Vegas Boulevard
downtown
Fremont Street
National Register of Historic Places
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Nevada Historical Marker
Daughters of Utah Pioneers
New Mexico folk carpenter architectural style
Spanish Trail
Mormon missionary
Las Vegas Valley
New Mexico

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