Mormon Island, California
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Mormon Island was a mining town mainly populated by Mormon immigrants seeking gold in the American River during the California Gold Rush. Its site is now submerged under Folsom Lake in present-day Sac
View of Miners Hotel, Mormon Island, California, (1850s lithograph)
St. Thomas, Nevada
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St. Thomas, Nevada is a ghost town in Clark County, Nevada, United States, near where the Muddy River flows into the Colorado River. St. Thomas was purchased by the US federal government and abandoned
Mormon Island, California
…Mining communities of the California Gold Rush St. Thomas, Nevada, another former Mormon community submerged by a man-made lake Mormon Island (Colorado River), an island in the Colorado River below the mouth of the…
Ruins exposed after being submerged under Lake Mead for many years, February 2007
A salvage crew floats by an abandoned building as Lake Mead fills with water, June 1938
St Thomas building foundation, February 2009