The story of Pueblo Grande de Nevada, or, the Lost City, is preserved at the Lost City Museum in Overton, Nevada, 60 miles northeast of Las Vegas. On the museum grounds are several Pueblo-type dwellings of wattle and daub which have been reconstructed on the original foundations. Plants gathered by the Indians, such as mesquite and screwbean, are part of the surrounding landscape.
The Lost City Museum has one of the most complete collections of the early Pueblo Indians in the Southwest. There are displays of the Desert Culture, Ancient Basketmaker I, II, and III cultures, the Puebloans who inhabited the area until about 1150 A.D., and the Paiutes who followed, and whose descendants still live in Southern Nevada. The museum also contains exhibits relating to the Mormon farmers who first settled the Moapa Valley in 1865. |
| Fees: |
$3.00 per person entry fee. |
| Hours: |
Open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily |
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A small gift shop has rare and outstanding books, rare Nevada State Museum archaeological monographs, and other souvenir-type items. |
| Directions: |
On the southern edge of Overton, Nevada.
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| Coordinates: |
Map Coordinates (NAD83): 36 31.631N; 114 26.249W. |
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