Author :This article was written and submitted by Elise McAllister, from Partners in Conservation and Logandale Trails System. Elise will be a regular contributor to this blog and the Moapa Valley History Category.
St Thomas was a pioneer settlement starting in 1865, located approximately 7 miles southeast of Overton, NV, inside the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
The President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the late 1860’s was Brigham Young. Who at the time issued a call to selected names read in a conference in Nephi, Utah.