Lake Mead: Ghost Town Unearthed As Water Levels Recede Due To Drought, The continuous dry season conditions in the West, in this one case, may really be something worth being thankful for. The dry season has created water levels in Lake Mead, shared by Arizona and Nevada, to subside by so much that a phantom town, of what was once St. Thomas, has been uncovered.
Established in 1865 as a Mormon settlement, St. Thomas served as a stop off between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City and bragged 500 occupants at its stature, as indicated by SFGate.
By 1918, there were six built up organizations in St. Thomas — Gentry's Store, R. Hannig Grocery Store, Gentry Hotel, William Sellers Cafe, Howell Garage and Rox Whitmore Meat — as indicated by the Moapa Valley Chamber of Commerce. The group flourished, since it supposedly settled itself as an early "vacation destination." Motorists driving through the territory discovered St. Thomas a welcome and helpful spot to stop for sustenance, supplies and auto repairs.
In any case, in 1938, the town was gulped by the rising Colorado River as development on the Hoover Damn continued.
The town stayed underneath Lake Mead under more than 60 feet of water, returning once in a while amid the dry seasons of 1946-1947 and 1952, on the other hand in the mid '60s when water from the Colorado River was kept down upstream to fill Lake Powell, as per Las Vegas' NBC News 3.
The apparition town gradually began to surface again in 2002 because of waiting dry season conditions and has turned into a piece of the scene from that point onward.
Since the remaining parts of the town are unmistakable at the end of the day, the National Park Service has cleared a way from the stopping region down to the previous apparition town, where it's turned out to be fairly a vacation s
Established in 1865 as a Mormon settlement, St. Thomas served as a stop off between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City and bragged 500 occupants at its stature, as indicated by SFGate.
By 1918, there were six built up organizations in St. Thomas — Gentry's Store, R. Hannig Grocery Store, Gentry Hotel, William Sellers Cafe, Howell Garage and Rox Whitmore Meat — as indicated by the Moapa Valley Chamber of Commerce. The group flourished, since it supposedly settled itself as an early "vacation destination." Motorists driving through the territory discovered St. Thomas a welcome and helpful spot to stop for sustenance, supplies and auto repairs.
In any case, in 1938, the town was gulped by the rising Colorado River as development on the Hoover Damn continued.
The town stayed underneath Lake Mead under more than 60 feet of water, returning once in a while amid the dry seasons of 1946-1947 and 1952, on the other hand in the mid '60s when water from the Colorado River was kept down upstream to fill Lake Powell, as per Las Vegas' NBC News 3.
The apparition town gradually began to surface again in 2002 because of waiting dry season conditions and has turned into a piece of the scene from that point onward.
Since the remaining parts of the town are unmistakable at the end of the day, the National Park Service has cleared a way from the stopping region down to the previous apparition town, where it's turned out to be fairly a vacation s
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