Brochure, Pioneer Trail of West Las Vegas community
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Brochure highlights and maps historic points of interest in West Las Vegas.McWilliams townsite 1904 Monroe Avenue 1943 (Continued on inside) This project funded by the Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act History of the Trail The Pioneer Trail is the vision of the West Las Vegas community that wanted to celebrate the history of West Las Vegas and the early pioneers that settled the area and contributed to its culture and heritage. A community group was formed to interview long-time residents and research the history of the area. The result was an extensive oral history collection and access to photographic archives that wove a tale of dreams realized and lost, civil rights victories, speakeasies and the development of a strong community, ethnically diverse and culturally rich. Clark County and the city of Las Vegas joined forces to complete the project and applied for funding from the sale of Bureau of Land Management lands under the Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act. The funding provided for local artists and historians to design
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