Officials to mark history of Goodsprings, Nevada

The Associated Press

Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 | 4:19 a.m.

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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