Louisville, Nevada Explained

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] The camp was probably named for Nat S. Lewis, the superintendent of the Techatticup Mine in the 1860s, and camp doctor.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. http://www.ansac.az.gov/UserFiles/PDF/08182014/X028_FMIBurtellLingenfelterSteamboats/FMI%20Lingenfelter%20Steamboats/Steamboats%20on%20the%20Colorado%20River%201852-1916.pdf Richard E. Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978
2. News: . April 25, 1865 . 1 . 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] ]. January 12, 2020.
3. 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]
4. News: Mohave County Miner . Mineral Park, Arizona . July 27, 1912 . 5 . The Story of Eldorado Canyon . John L. . Riggs . January 23, 2020.