Journal Entry for Saturday, Apr 7th

Lost City Museum, Overton NV After our hike to St. Thomas on Thursday, we drove to the Lost City Museum in Overton. Today I put together a post on my photo gallery site to provide info on this historical museum. Even though Connie and I had visited this museum back in 2008, I learned even more about the area today. Built by the National Park Service in 1935, it houses an extensive collection of Virgin Anasazi artifacts from Pueblo Grande de Nevada (Lost City). It is even built on the ruin of an actual Virgin Anasazi pueblo and offers a reconstructed Anasazi building that is open to visitors. A later extension was actually built on top of some ruins in order to protect them.  It was established as a place to move the artifacts from Pueblo Grande de Nevada which was going to be partially covered by the waters of Lake Mead as a result of building the Hoover Dam. Check it out here … Lost City Museum.