true or false, Las Vegas Nevada was founded by mormons.?

Question

first correct answer with true or false and a little background of who sent people to settle las vegas and who the people were gets the points.

Answer 1

This is true. Brigham Young sent settlers to many areas, one of which was what is now Las Vegas. This happened in the 1860's or 1870's I'm not sure of the year. I heard this because I was Mormon and its a part of the history.

Answer 2

Mormons In Las Vegas

Answer 3

True - - - in fact huge swatches of Nevada were Mormon turf and Congress kept adding to the Nevada Territory whenever he Mormons found minerals and proved an area could be farmed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas%2C_Nevada
"""Las Vegas was established as a railroad town on May 15, 1905, when 110 acres (44.5 ha) owned by Montana Senator William A. Clark's San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City Railroad, was auctioned off in what is now downtown Las Vegas. Las Vegas was part of Lincoln County until 1909 when it became part of the newly established Clark County. Las Vegas became an incorporated city on March 16, 1911."""


Nevafa got bigger, Utah got smaller.


Peace....

PS Love Dodge's long answer but gotta insert even in condoning MYSELF but on a technicallity NO - - - - False, as a City Las Vegas was incorporated in 1911, up to that time it was an area on the map with the railroad holding the ground once held by the Mornons - - - so as a city the Mormons were not founders - - - and as Dodge pointed out a Spaniard discovered what the Natives alreay Knew, that it was a great site for a town/city for intangible reasons.

Answer 4

The exact date is unknown, but Rafael Rivera became the first known non-Indian to set foot in the oasis-like Las Vegas Valley.

The abundant artesian spring water discovered at Las Vegas shortened the Spanish Trail to Los Angeles, eased rigors for Spanish traders and hastened the rush west for California gold. Between 1830 and 1848, the name "Vegas," as shown on maps of that day, was changed to Las Vegas which means "The Meadows" in Spanish.

Some 14 years after Rivera's discovery, John C. Fremont led an overland expedition west and camped at Las Vegas Springs on May 13, 1844.
Mormon settlers from Salt Lake City traveled to Las Vegas to protect the Los Angeles-Salt Lake City mail route and in 1855 began building a 150-square-foot fort of sun-dried bricks made of clay soil and grass, a substance known as adobe.

The Mormons planted fruit trees, cultivated vegetables and mined lead for bullets at Potosi Mountain. Mormon pioneers abandoned the settlement in 1858, partly because of Indian raids. A portion of the "Mormon Fort" has withstood the ravages of time and is an historic site today near the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard North and Washington Avenue. Scientists began an archeological dig on the site in November 1992.

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) currently make up about 12 percent of the Southern Nevada population and in December 1989 dedicated a Mormon Temple in Las Vegas. The temple spires are visible in the foothills of Sunrise Mountain to the east of the city.

Answer 5

There's the old Mormon Fort on Washington Blvd & the Strip with a restoration currently in progress. It's part of the Nevada State Park system.

Parry Thomas was the mormon who got banks to fund the major casino building in Vegas. His son is my former bishop.

Answer 6

The Mormons founded Salt Lake City.
Las Vegas has just a train stop in the desert during World War II. Organized crime made it into a gambling mecca after the war.

Answer 7

based by utilising the mafia...rofl...what a team of idiots. definite, it replaced into based by utilising mormons, everyone in Nevada and Utah knows that. "commencing in 1895, the water replaced into used for irrigating vegetation and orchards by utilising the Mormons and later ranchers. After the city of Las Vegas replaced into based in 1905, the spring water replaced into diverted into the city's water device and the creek many times dried up." that's called sin city by using vices although, yet you recognize that too, darlin'.

Answer 8

If the mormons were the first to settle there, who in the world did they bug by banging on doors at 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning? Their history of geneologies is ok, but their history of north america sucks big time and is not reliable at all.

Answer 9

false is was discoverd in 1829 by spanish explorers and named by the spanish. in 1854 brigham young assigned missionaries to settle there..

Answer 10

Yes, it was started by the Mormons. I forget the story behind it, tho. sorry.