A Brief History of Rachel Nevada

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When most people think about the state Nevada, they think about gambling, fast weddings and easy divorces, prostitution and twenty four hour a day drinking. Reno and Las Vegas have capitalized on these markets and use them to attract tourist into their casinos. One town in Nevada attracts tourist for a completely different reason. Just a short 2 hour drive from Las Vegas the town of Rachel Nevada pulls in tourist hoping to catch a glance of something extraterrestrial.
Rachel is the newest town in Nevada. Before the town was named Rachel it was called Tempiute Village but was also called Sands Springs Valley. It was a public land until D.C Day and a few other farmers turned it into private land for homesteading. To obtain the land the men had to successfully farm a portion of the land for a certain number of years. The men decided to grow mainly alfalfa along with corn and sugar beets. Even though the cost of keeping the farm running was high compared to the payout price for the crops D.C Day did eventually get a title for 4000 acres. Day had to find investors to keep the farm going so he formed a corporation and found and investor in Dallas. The investment fell through when the investor died from having a sheep's blood transfusion. So D.C. Day decided that the best solution was dividing his land into some house lots. The Union Carbide reopened the Lincoln Mine in 1976. With the mine opened D. C Day had the starting of a real town. In 1976 Day and J.R. Robinson built a trailer park and all power came from expensive generators. It wasn't until after Mel Brown Company bought some land from Day that the town had any power in 1978. The first child born was Rachel Jones. She was born in a mobile home on Feb. 15, 1978. The birth was s...

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...host town if not for some unexplained things in the sky. There is no real proof of aliens anywhere near Rachel Nevada but a secret base that just might have some alien spacecraft hidden with other worldly secrets is a perfect draw for tourist.

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