History of Las Vegas

We all know that Las Vegas is dubbed the City of Sin, but do you really know how Las Vegas started in the first place? Well, in this article we are going to explore some of Las Vegas’s history and figure out exactly where this beautiful city came from and how it got its name.

First and foremost, because Las Vegas is deep in the desert, it was actually discovered by accident by a few explorers in 1829. The route to Las Vegas way back then was normally referred to as the ‘journey of death’ as these travelers would run out of water on their way to the site where Las Vegas was built. While the site for Vegas may have been discovered in 1829, it was virtually unknown until about 1844.

John C. Fremont was the person that actually discovered Vegas and he made an entry in his travel log that year stating that he found some springs in the desert which held water and that is where he set up camp. Another ten years went by and Mormon Missionaries from Salt Lake City actually set up camp in Vegas and they built a very small fort to create a mail stop between LA and Salt Lake City.

Throughout the years that followed, the fort became abandon and many different people actually took over Las Vegas, however it was just after World War II that Las Vegas began to fully develop into the Sin City that we know. Hotels, entertainment, casinos and tourism all started in the early 1960’s and began what we now know as Las Vegas!

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