Louisville, which is now a ghost town, was a mining camp in El Dorado Canyon near the Techatticup Mine in the Eldorado Mining District, of New Mexico Territory.[1][2] : 33, 35 The camp was probably named for Nat S. Lewis, the superintendent of the Techatticup Mine in the 1860s, and camp doctor.[3][4][5]
References
edit- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Louisville, Nevada
- ^ Richard E. Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978 Archived 2016-01-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "OUR LETTER FROM ARIZONA TERRITORY, The Tachatticup Mine, (from the Resident Correspondent of the Alta California.), El Dorado Canon. Upper Colorado River. Arizona Territory. March 30th, 1865. F. S. A.[Frank S. Alling]". The Daily Alta California. April 25, 1865. p. 1. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
- ^ Daily Alta California, Volume 18, Number 5922, 28 May 1866, p.1 col. 5-6; OUR ARIZONA CORRESPONDENCE, Up The Colorado, (from the Correspondent of the Alta California), El Dorado Canyon, April 30th, 1866, Alling [Frank S. Alling]
- ^ Riggs, John L. (July 27, 1912). "The Story of Eldorado Canyon". Mohave County Miner. Mineral Park, Arizona. p. 5. Retrieved January 23, 2020.
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