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Las Vegas founded at a railroad auction
1905
Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada
Mike McBey · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad auctioned 1,200 lots on a single day in May 1905, creating the town. Nevada legalised gambling in 1931, the same year Hoover Dam construction began.
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