Welcome to Nevada!
  FAST FACTS: There were many Spanish explorers in the 1770s who came near the Nevada area, but it wasn't until 50 years later that fur traders venturing into the Rocky Mts. publicized the region. Nevada's first settlement was Genoa, near Carson City, settled by Mormons in 1849, then called Mormon Station. Nevada's name was adopted in 1861 when territory was established.

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