For more than 15,000 years, springs broke through the desert floor, creating grassy meadows (called las vegas by Spanish New-Mexican explorers).

[4] Known as The Birthplace of Las Vegas it sustained travelers of the Old Spanish Trail and Mormons who came to settle the West.

It is a site historically known for a gathering of pioneers and Native Americans and early settlers in the Las Vegas Valley.

Once pipe lines were laid and wells were drilled, the water table dropped, and the springs stopped flowing to the surface in 1962.

He was the Mexican scout for the expedition of Antonio Armijo who pioneered the Old Spanish Trail between New Mexico and California.