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Nevada State Historical Marker No. 140: The Garcés Expedition

Location: Off the Needles Highway in Laughlin (near 35.10674,-114.65076) Seeking to open a land route between the missions of Sonora and California, Fray Francisco Hermenegildo Garcés, OFM, a Franciscan missionary priest and explorer, was the first European to enter the present boundaries of Nevada. He departed mission San Xavier Del Bac near Tucson in OctoberContinue reading “Nevada State Historical Marker No. 140: The Garcés Expedition”