GOODSPRINGS, Nev. (AP) -- A tiny town in the Nevada desert plans to mark the placing of a historic marker this weekend at a park in front of the community center.
The 9:30 a.m. Saturday ceremony in Goodsprings will mark the early years of the unincorporated hamlet 33 miles southwest of Las Vegas near the Nevada-California state line.
It was initially called Good's Spring, for miner Joe Good, and it has a history older than Clark County, which is marking its centennial this year.
Mormon pioneers started mining nearby in the mid-1850s.
A post office opened in 1899, a three-room schoolhouse in 1913, and Goodsprings had several saloons, a newspaper, a general store and more than 800 residents during a mining boom from 1911 to 1922.
Residents estimate the population today at about 200.
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