from nvexpeditions.com: Riverside was the location of a service station established by Carl Enkey around 1930 to serve travelers on Highway 91. Before 1925, the Arrowhead Trail (US-91) followed a southerly route to St. Thomas, but loss of a major bridge to fire coupled with the impending construction of Hoover Dam (and subsequent loss of St. Thomas) prompted construction of a new, more northern route that closely parallels today’s Interstate 15.
Riverside appears to have had cabins, presumably for lodging, in addition to the service station, and possibly a few homes. It was probably closed around 1955, when the highway was rerouted and bypassed the communities of the Virgin River Valley. A handful of buildings remained until they were bulldozed in February 2025.
The Washington School was built in 1932 and represents the Moderne architectural style. Its architect and builder are unknown. The school retains integrity of its design including stylistic elements, plan configuration and massing. It also retains integrity of construction materials and building details. The Washington School has been in continuous use as a school from the time of its construction until the present day.
The Washington School is located in Las Vegas, Nevada within the SW 1/4 of Section 23, T20S, R61E. The building is situated on the southwest corner of Lake Mead Boulevard and White Street, and faces east toward White Street. The original school site measures 240 feet along Lake Mead Boulevard and 250 feet along White Street. The site is characterized by asphalt and grass surfaces, mature cypress trees at the entrance, and three non-contn’buting buildings.
The Washington School is a one-story building with a symmetrical, cruciform plan containing two classrooms. The basically rectangular structure measures 25 by 85 feet, with a stepped projecting entry and rear restroom wing forming the cruciform plan. The school is constructed with concrete foundations and concrete block walls which are divided into bays with Moderne style pilasters. A flat roof is located behind the parapet and is covered with asphalt shingles.
Located at 1901 White Street in North Las Vegas, Nevada and added to the National Register of Historic Places (#92000120)
An important exterior element that articulates the building’s symmetry is the central, paired metal doors within a projecting frontispiece detailed with stepped corner reveals. The original windows are steel frame with eight lite casement, awning, and fixed sash variations. A notable decorative feature of the otherwise undecorated building are the concrete band courses at the cornice and parapets. Original interior elements include two panel wood doors with eight lite transoms, blackboards, and plumbing fixtures.
The site contains three additional structures. At the rear of the site, about 100 feet behind Washington School, are a portable classroom building and a wood frame and stuccoed classroom building. The third building is situated about 50 feet to the southeast of the school and is wood frame with a gable roof. Its function is unknown.
The Washington School is significant under Criteria C in the area of significance of Architecture. It is representative of the historic context “Schoolhouse Architecture in Southern Nevada’s Fifth Supervision School District, 1870 to 1942.” Built in 1932, the Washington School is a rare regional example of the Moderne Style influence in elementary school design. Only one other school in Southern Nevada, the Las Vegas High School, is designed in the Moderne Style. The building is also significant as an example of the early use of concrete block. The Washington School is a good illustration of the Custom Architecturally Designed Schoolhouse property type, and is one of only twelve such buildings in the Fifth Supervision District. The building possesses the important characteristics of the property type, specifically the combination of standardized functional criteria with a mainstream style to form one unified architectural statement.
The Moderne Style incorporated the concepts of the modern movement into architectural design. Those concepts denounced superfluous ornamentation and the reliance on historical precedent, and emphasized instead structural simplicity and the use of the most up-to-date materials and construction processes, as well as allowing the essential qualities of the building’s function to drive the aesthetics of the design.
Elements of that style, illustrated by the Washington School, include the overall simple geometry of the structure, and smooth or undecorated surfaces. Symmetrical arrangement of the principal facade, another characteristic of the style, is also evident in the Washington School design. A projecting central frontispiece divides the facade into three bays. The walls are further articulated by two horizontal cornice bands and a series of pilasters. The pilasters, as well as the building corners, are detailed with stepped back blockwork, a typical technique of the Moderne Style.
The Washington School is also important for its association with the development of Las Vegas, which experienced a population and building boom as the beginning of the 1930s. The boom was brought about by a diversification of the city’s economy that greatly changed its pre-1930 status as primarily a railroad town. From 1931 through the end of World War II, three events lead to the creation of many new jobs in Las Vegas. First, Las Vegas was designated as the supply center for the nearby Boulder Dam construction project. Second, gambling was legalized, and third, several wartime industries were located near Las Vegas. The expanding job market resulted in the city’s population growing from 5,952 in 1930, to 8,422 in 1940, to 24,625 in 1950. Built in 1932, Washington School reflects the citywide school building expansion program during that year.
This home was constructed in 1911 and is an example of a neoclassical central block form with projecting bays. The home is built of yellow pressed brick that has been painted white. Although a central block form, the house has a monolithic feeling of a foursquare plan structure. The roof is hipped with a single attic dormer and broad over hanging eaves. The house has three porches as well as well as a two-story screened porch wrapping around the southwest corner of the building. This house originally faced 200 East and was identified as 110 South 200 East. In 1953, the home became the Union Pacific Rooming House, presumably a boarding house for Union Pacific workers. In 1965 the structure was sold to Phil Aiken who hired Provo architect Lee Knell to remodel the structure into a chiropractor’s office. In 2000, the structure was sold to Todd and Leslie Stilson who have restored the structure to a residence.
In 1901, the Lehi Banner declared this home the “finest residence south of Salt Lake.” T. R. Cutler (1844-1922) is credited with much of the success of the beet sugar industry in the Intermountain West. Later, the home served as a hotel. From 1914-1925, Dr. Dr. F.D. Worlton (1882-1931) and family lived on the main floor while he rain a hospital upstairs.
Thomas R. Cutler, the general manager of the Utah Sugar Company and beloved bishop of the Lehi Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more than 20 years, built the beautiful home in 1900. Later, one of his children turned the mansion into the Reltuc Inn. Then Dr. F. D. Worlton purchased the home and moved his family onto the main floor and ran the Lehi Hospital from the upstairs from 1914-1925. In 1977, Wallace and Arlene Olsen purchased the home and restored it. In 1984, the home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
from livingnewdeal.org: The largest portion of Lynn Fausett’s WPA-funded Barrier Canyon mural hangs at the back of the entry hall of the University of Utah Museum of Natural History at the eastern flank of the University of Utah campus (a smaller portion hangs in the Natural History Museum in Price, Utah). The canvas mural measures 12 x 60 feet and depicts ancient native pictographs/petroglyphs that Fausett had observed at the Great Gallery in Canyonlands National Monument (now a National Park), in what is known as the “Barrier Canyon Rock Art” style.
The mural was originally painted to be hung at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, then was stored at the Denver Art Museum for many years. In 1964 it was brought out and Fausett made repairs before it was exhibited around the west for several years. It fell in the hands of the Utah Museum of Natural History in 1969. In 2011 the mural was cleaned and stabilized, and then remounted on a steel frame, to be exhibited in the new home of the museum, completed that year. (see Museum flyer, below)
Lynn Fausett was born and raised in Price, Utah, and did several major New Deal mural projects around the state and in Nevada, including in the foyer of the auditorium of the Municipal Building in Price.
Dixie Academy was constructed to provide advanced courses of study. The St. George Stake Academy officially began in 1888 and moved into this building in 1911. A four year program was recognized as two years of Senior High and two years of College. The college program grew into the institution known as Dixie Jr. College and eventually Dixie College.
This monument was erected in 1936 by the students of Dixie Junior College in honor of its founders and the builders of Dixie as typified in the lives of Anthony W. Ivins and Edward H. Snow.
~ Forever Dixie ~
St. George Town Square is central to the story of education in Utah’s Dixie – a nickname, a term of endearment and identity – so named because Washington County was considered ideal for growing cotton and other warm- weather crops. Town Square was anchored by the Dixie Academy Building on the SE corner and Woodward School which opened its doors on the NW corner in 1901. After their arrival in 1861, St. George pioneers were still in temporary quarters on the Encampment Mall where their first school was held in a tent. Within two years, there were four neighborhood schools, later replaced by Woodward School, a two-story stone building for grades 1-10. In time, Woodward became a junior high school drawing students in grades 7-10 from nearby feeder schools. Before Dixie Academy was permanently established and graduated its first class in 1911, high school students attended St. George Stake Academy in the basement of the St. George Tabernacle. Later the academy became a 2-year college but also retained its high school standing for those in grades 11-12. To address the needs of students, additional buildings, since razed, were constructed. In 1933, Dixie Junior College became a state school and in 1963 moved to the 700 East campus, to become Dixie State College in 2000, then Dixie State University in 2012. The Dixie Academy building was also known as Dixie Normal College and housed Dixie High School until 1966.
The 2024 monument restoration was a “service above self” project of the Rotary Club of St. George and the City of St. George with funds generously donated by alumni and friends of Dixie College.
Camp Floyd was established in 1858 by order of President James Buchanan. During its three years of operation, Camp Floyd was the site of the largest assembled troop concentration in the United States prior to the Civil War. No buildings remain in this area from the encampment, but the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The Camp Floyd Cemetery was established in 1858 and abandoned three years later as the troops stationed at Camp Floyd returned to fight in the Civil War. The actual number, location and identities of soldiers buried in the cemetery is not known with certainty as the Army did not keep burial records during this period and all surface evidence of grave locations was destroyed.
Efforts to commemorate the cemetery included a monument dedicated by the War Department in 1913 and 84 granite markers placed by the American Legion in 1960. Army records have since revealed that almost half of the names on the markers were of individuals who died someplace other than Camp Floyd or were never with Johnston’s Army.
The following list of possible burials has been reconstructed from army records that record the names of soldiers who died at Camp Floyd. No list of civilians could be found. Ground penetrating radar done in 2009 revealed 33 burials and one double burial. The radar may not have detected all possible burials. New headstones were placed in 2011 to reflect the locations of the known burials. These headstones read “Unknown” in order to reflect that the identity of the burial is not known.
Camp Floyd /Stagecoach Inn State Park would like to thank the Veterans Administration, Curtis Allen, Ephriam Dickson with the Fort Douglas Museum, Andrew Murphy, Tyler Bartholomew and Troop 1460.
Bergen, James. Private, Co. C, 4th Artillery. Born c. 1837. Died June 27, 1860, accidental drowning
Bryan, William. Private Co. I 7th Infantry. Bom c. 1830. Died December 27, 1859, murdered
Edinger, Benjamin F. Private, Co. C, 4th Artillery. Born c. 1839. Died December 11, 1859, cause unknown
Farrell, Edward. Private, Co. F, 10th Infantry. Born c1831. Died May 12, 1859, self-inflicted gunshot
Fuhr, George. Private, Co. G, 5th Infantry. Born c1833. Died May 17, 1860, disease
Gallagher, Daniel. Private Co. E, 7th Infantry.
Born c. 1834. Died September 11, 1859, pneumonia
Giers, Robert. Private, Co. I, 10th Infantry. Born c. 1835. Died November 7, 1859, typhoid fever
Goodman, Patrick. Private, Co. D, 7th Infantry. Born c. 1815. Died January 2, 1860, pneumonia
Green, Charles R. Sergeant, Co. E, 2nd Dragoons. Born c. 1830. Died August 6, 1859, self-inflicted wounds
Hardy, James. Private Co. B, 2nd Dragoons. Born c. 1836. Died December 21, 1859, cause unknown
Kennedy, Patrick. Private, Co. B, 2nd Dragoons. Born c. 1833. Died April 9, 1860, cause unknown
Krause, Antion. Private, Co. A, 7th Infantry. Born c. 1836. Died November 26, 1859, typhoid fever
Mahers, Richard, Recruit, 4th Artillery. Born c. 1839. Died September 17 1860, dysentery
Main, James L. Private, Co. A, 7th Infantry. Born c. 1825. Died September 13, 1859, alcohol poisoning
McCabe, James. Private Co. D, 7th Infantry.Born c. 1833. Died November 5, 1859, consumption
McNickle, Daniel. Private, Co. B 5th Infantry. Born c. 1837. Died November 24 1858, cause unknown
Means, John. Private, Co. H, 2nd Dragoons. Born c. 1836. Died July 17, 1859, disease
Moore, William H. Private, Co. D, 7th Infantry. Born c. 1839. Died March 29, 1860, pneumonia
Mullen, James. Private, Co. 1, 5th Infantry. Born c. 1837. Died March 10, 1859, cause unknown
Newell, Benjamin F. Private, Co. A, 7th Infantry. Born c. 1832. Died April 8, 1860, suicide
Nieland, Edward. Private, Co. K, 7th Infantry. Born c. 1834. Died March 27, 1859, typhoid fever
Noble, Robert W. Private, Co. H, 5th Infantry. Born c. 1837. Died October 7, 1859, disease
O’Brien, Charles, Private, Co. B, 2nd Dragoons. Died July 15, 1861, disease
O’Brien, Michael. Private, Co. A 2nd Dragoons. Bom c. 1827. Died February 23, 1859, aneurism
O’Connor, Thomas. Private, Co. H, 10th Infantry. Bom c. 1831. Died December 10, 1859, disease enteritis
O’Hara, Edward. Private, Co. D, 7th Infantry. Born c. 1831. Died March 12 1860, shot by a sentinel of the Camp Guard
Otterback, Christian. Corporal, Co. 4th Artillery. Born c. 1835. Died February 11, 1860, found murdered
Paige, George H. Captain, QMD. Bom c. 1825. Died April 18, 1859, disease
Pike, Ralph. 1st Sergeant, Co. I, 10th Infantry. Bom c. 1837. Died August 14, 1859, assassinated in Salt Lake City
Potts, Elias K. Second Lieutenant, Co. C, 7th Infantry. Born c. 1838. Died April 23, 1859, disease
Redding, William. Private Co. C, 7th Infantry. Born c. 1828. Died December 20, 1859, alcohol poisoning
Rooney, Terence. Private, Co. A, 7th Infantry. Born c. 1832. Died March 30, 1860, diabetes
Shields, Henry, Private, Co. B 2nd Dragoons. Born c. 1830. Died September 17, 1860, cause unknown
Sliter, Thomas M. Private, Co. B, 7th Infantry. Born c. 1835. Died December 19, 1858, disease
Stewart, James, Private, Co. D, 5th Infantry. Born c. 1829. Died January 22, 1860, accidental shooting
Sweeney, James. Private, Co. C, 7th Infantry.Born c. 1835. Died November 18, 1858, hemorrhage of the stomach
Thrall, Charles C. Private, Co. E, 5th Infantry. Born c. 1832. Died November 28, 1858, cause unknown
Trittle, Theodore. Private, Co. C, 4th Artillery. Born c. 1832. Died January 9, 1860, disease
Tucker, Henry C. Sergeant, Co. 1, 5th Infantry. Born c. 1833. Died March 4, 1859, cause unknown
Warren, James H. Private, Co. K, 5th Infantry. Also known as James H. Richards. Born c. 1836. Died February 21, 1860, disease
These soldiers died before Camp Floyd was finished but may have been buried in the cemetery:
Akerly, Charles W. Private, Co. A, 5th Infantry. Born c. 1836. Died August 1, 1858, cause unknown
Grava, Heinrich. Private, Co. G, 5th Infantry. Born c. 1828. Died July 29, 1858, cause unknown
Isaacs, John E. Private, Co. D, 7th Infantry.Born c. 1830. Died September 27, 1858, disease
McDougal, Archibald T. Private, Co. E, 10th Infantry. Born c. 1837. Died October 12, 1858, cause unknown
