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Arriving there from California in 1866, the English settler George Lovelock (1824–1907) bought the squatters' right for 320 acres (129 ha) and received with it the oldest water rights on the Humboldt River. Although born in Wales, Lovelock was from an English family of Wiltshire origin that is known to family historians as the Lyneham Line. [3]
Lovelock Cave (NV-Ch-18) is a North American archaeological site previously known as Sunset Guano Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Loud Site 18. The cave is about 150 feet (46 m) long and 35 feet (11 m) wide. [ 1 ]
The original village at this spot was founded by the English settler George Lovelock (1824–1907), after whom the town of Lovelock, Nevada was eventually named. Arriving in the state in 1851, he had followed the mining and logging northwards and finally settled in the forest near Butte Creek, operating a small mill to harvest sugar pine.
Located on a gravel road 2.5 miles from the California border, ... Monterey Bar – The Monterey Bar was located within Lovelock. ... Nevada Brothels Map – map of ...
Pershing County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,650. [1] Its county seat is Lovelock. [2] The county is listed as Nevada Historical Marker 17. The marker is at the courthouse in Lovelock. [3] The Black Rock Desert, location for the annual Burning Man event, is partially in the county.
The Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada has a reservation at in Humboldt County, Nevada. The reservation was established on June 18, 1917, and comprises two parcels of land, 20 acres (0.081 km 2 ) enclosed within the urban area of the City of Winnemucca centered on Cinnabar Street, and 320 acres (1.3 km 2 ) of rural land on the southern edge of ...
Lovelock (formerly Lovelocks and Lovelocks Store) is an unincorporated community in Butte County, California. [1] It is located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west-southwest of Stirling City [ 2 ] and lies at an elevation of 3136 feet (956 m).
That route, designated with the passage of Nevada's first highway law in 1917, created a highway route across northern Nevada from California to Utah which passed through Lovelock. [3] With the adoption of the U.S. Highway System in 1926, [citation needed] US 40 was eventually added concurrently with SR 1. [1] [4]