Mormon Station State Historic
Park is
located in Genoa Nevada. Genoa is the oldest permanent
settlement in Nevada. Mormon Station,
the original name of the settlement, was established
as a trading post in 1851 to serve the wagon trains
as a resting and re-provisioning place between the
deserts of the Great Basin and the the Sierra Nevada
mountains. The town that grew up around the old Mormon
stockade was named the seat of Carson
County, Utah Territory, in 1854 and of Douglas County,
Nevada Territory, in 1861. Mormon Station was Nevada’s
first town and many of the original structures
remain in tact.
