Ragtown, Nevada

For information about Williamsville,[1] the squatter's camp ("hell's hole", "ragtown") for construction workers near the mouth of Black Canyon[2] before Boulder City (1932) was built, see Hoover Dam.

Ragtown, Nevada, is a Churchill County ghost town of an abandoned 1854 trading post west of Fallon.[3]

References

  1. ^ McBride, Dennis; Dunar, Andrew J (2001). Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression. p. 40. ISBN 0874174899. http://books.google.com/books?id=SYeEmU2aW9EC. Retrieved 2010-05-25. 
  2. ^ Vintage Photograph Collection - Children, Hoover Dam Museum, Boulder City
  3. ^ Nevada State Historic Preservation - historical markers