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We've Gone from Whistle Stop to Windfall!

Come See How We Grew ...

Starting March 25, the Clark County Museum hosts a year-long Centennial exhibit featuring historic photographs, memorabilia, clothing, and artifacts that will bring historic Las Vegas to life, from its founding in 1905 as a tiny railroad town to the present.

The historic display is aptly named, "Whistle Stop to Windfall: 100 Years in Las Vegas," and that's the very road we've traveled-from whistle stop to windfall.

Visitors arriving at the museum enter through a 1905-style tent saloon complete with bar. In 1905 there were already a number of makeshift saloons scattered around the area, and when the land auction was finished, many of the first permanent structures to be built were also saloons.

You'll see museum displays on hotels, education, the wedding industry, and a section on unique Las Vegas individuals. You'll see a corner devoted to Elvis Presley, and a section dedicated to those icons of Las Vegas-Showgirls!

You'll see an exhibit dedicated to pioneer Anna Roberts Parks, the town's first female funeral parlor owner. Anna arrived in Las Vegas in 1911 at the age of 22. In the early '20s, she went to mortuary school in Los Angeles, and then returned to Las Vegas to open Palm Mortuary. Anna Roberts Parks was an avid collector of historical and Native American artifacts. After her death, her collection became the basis for today's Clark County Museum.

The Clark County Museum is located at 2601 E. Sunset Road in Las Vegas.

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Showgirls! Our town's prom queens.

No Las Vegas museum is complete without a corner dedicated to Elvis Presley.