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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17HR_chief-hotel-court_Las-Vegas-NV.html
The Chief Hotel Court sign was originally installed around 1940 at the hotel located at 1201 E. Fremont Street. Hotel architect was A. Lacey Worshwick.
Loaned and refurbished by the Tiberti Family.
Installed as part of the Neon Museum on Jul…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17HP_the-flame-restaurant_Las-Vegas-NV.html
The Flame Restaurant sign was originally installed in 1961 on the roof of the restaurant at #1 Desert Inn Road.
Restored through a generous donation from Rich Travis.
Installed as part of the Neon Museum on July 8, 1997
Believed to have b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17HO_nevada-motel_Las-Vegas-NV.html
Opened in 1937 at 5th Street (Las Vegas Boulevard) and Garces, the Nevada Motel was the first auto court in Las Vegas to identify itself as a "motel". In its last years in business it operated in conjunction with the Sweetheart Wedding Chapel next…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM166V_pueblo-grande-de-nevada_Granada-NV.html
Existing today as a 30-mile series of adobe ruins, this "Lost City" was once the home of an ancient Anasazi Indian civilization. Beginning with the basketmakers (300 B.C.-A.D.700) & followed by the Pueblos (A.D.700-1150) this valley was inhabited …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM102S_bugsy_Las-Vegas-NV.html
Flashy end-credit sequence filmed hereat the Flamingo HiltonStars Warren Beatty, Annette Bening (1991)
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM102Q_the-bugsy-building_Las-Vegas-NV.html
On this site Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel's original Flamingo Hotel stood from December 26, 1944 until December 14, 1993.
The hotel, which housed 77 rooms, including the notorious Mr. Siegel's "Bugsy Suite" or "Presidential Suite" as it was sometime…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYGB_woodlawn-cemetery_Las-Vegas-NV.html
Until 1914, when the railroad donated land for a city cemetery, people buried the dead in small family plots or on public land just north of the railroad-owened Las Vegas Ranch, east of Las Vegas Boulevard.
In pre-railroad times, the Paiute Ind…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYGA_las-vegas-paiute-colony_Las-Vegas-NV.html
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) bought this ten-acre site in 1911 from Helen J. Stewart, former owner of the Las Vegas Ranch, to provide a home for the Southern Paiute Indians living in and near Las Vegas. With this purchase, the government off…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYG9_westside-school_Las-Vegas-NV.html
The first school in West Las Vegas opened with two rooms and two teachers for four grades.
From 1904 until 1923, children from McWilliams' Townsite crossed the railroad tracks to get to school in Clark's Townsite. This dangerous situation laste…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYG8_moody-house_Las-Vegas-NV.html
Herman Moody, Las Vegas' first black career police officer, was raised in this house at 321 Van Buren Avenue, built by his parents (father Henry Moody pictured lower left) who came here in 1939.
As first African-American in Las Vegas to make a …