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Adrianne Ruefa tends her garden at an original townsite home, Henderson, Nevada: digital photograph
Date
2016-10-19
Archival Collection
Description
Longtime resident Adrianne Ruefa works in her front yard garden on the corner of Tungsten Street and West Victory Road in Henderson. Ruefa has lived in the original townsite home since 1970. Built in 1942, the house was designed as temporary housing for workers employed at the Basic Magnesium Inc. manufacturing facility constructed during World War II.
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Adrianne Ruefa tends her garden at an original townsite home, Henderson, Nevada: digital photograph
Date
2016-10-19
Archival Collection
Description
Longtime resident Adrianne Ruefa works in her front yard garden on the corner of Tungsten Street and West Victory Road in Henderson. Ruefa has lived in the original townsite home since 1970. Built in 1942, the house was designed as temporary housing for workers employed at the Basic Magnesium Inc. manufacturing facility constructed during World War II.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to W. M. Jeffers, November 10, 1944
Date
1944-11-10
Archival Collection
Description
Letter to the president of the Union Pacific appraising him of why the Las Vegas Land and Water Company was protesting the issuance of new permits to drill wells in the Las Vegas.
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Letter from Robert J. Moore to Pat McCarran (Washington D. C.), March 18, 1954
Date
1954-03-18
Archival Collection
Description
Letter summarizing the issues surrounding the Las Vegas Valley Water District trying to obtain passage of a bill allowing them right-of-way across federal land.
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