1881 - Bunkerville

Bunkerville, situated thirty-five miles northeast from St. Thomas, on the Rio Virgen, and near the east line of Lincoln County, was located in January, 1877, by E. Bunker and others, who came to that part of the county to engage in farming. The town now contains about 125 people, one store, one saloon, one restaurant, one livery stable and one blacksmith shop. They have a post-office and a semi-weekly mail. There is one church building, which cost $500, and will seat about 350 persons, owned by the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints," a Mormon Sabbath-school with sixty scholars in usual attendance, one day school with thirty-three pupils. The buildings are for the most part adobe, though there are a few frame structures. Their supplies are obtained mostly from St. George, in Utah, about fifty miles distant to the northeast. The taxable property in the township is valued at about $2,000. Good water is obtained from the Rio Virgen and wood from the valley along the stream. The soil in the vicinity of the town is well adapted to agriculture, vegetables being raised in great abundance. Near the town are some remarkable curiosities, ruins of a stone fort, relics, no doubt, of the Spaniard of Mexico or Arizona, evidences of whose trace may be found in remains of old furnaces, pottery, etc., in various places in southern Lincoln County.

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Extracted, 2021 Aug 25 by Norma Hass, from History of Nevada, published in 1881, page 489.

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