Lovelock, Nevada Lovelock, Nevada Main Street in Lovelock NV Main Street in Lovelock NV Location of Lovelock, Nevada Lovelock, Nevada is positioned in the US Lovelock, Nevada - Lovelock, Nevada Lovelock is the governmental center of county of Pershing County, Nevada, United States, in which it is the only incorporated city.

5 Lovelock in song and story Lovelock lies in the Humboldt River Basin, very near the end of the river.

Some twenty miles outside the town is the Lovelock Native Cave, a horseshoe-shaped cave of about 35 ft width (11 m) and 150 ft length (46 m) where Northern Paiute natives anciently deposited a number of duck decoys and other artifacts. At the southern end of town is the 20-acre reservation of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe.

The region in which the township of Lovelock was to be established first came to eminence as a lush way station on the Humboldt Trail to California.

The Humboldt River near Lovelock Arriving there from California in 1866, the English settler George Lovelock (1824 1907) bought the squatters' right for 320 acres (129 ha) and got with it the earliest water rights on the Humboldt River.

Although born in Wales, Lovelock was from a family of Wiltshire origin that is known to family historians as the Lyneham Line. His brother Daniel moved to Australia and one of Daniel's sons to New Zealand so that the relations of the man after whom the Nevada town was titled are now widely scattered.

George Lovelock provided 85 acres (34 ha) for the site and the depot was therefore titled 'Lovelock's' after him and appears as such on old maps. Thereafter he put his quarrying expertise to work and identified many valuable lodes in the encircling area, which contributed to enhanced stockyards traffic.

By 1900, the town of Lovelock had a school, churches and a company precinct along what was then called Railway Street later retitled West Broadway. Also encompassed among the businesses were no less than three weekly newspapers: The Lovelock Tribune, which ran from May 1898 until February 1912; the short-lived Lovelock Standard (April September 1900); and The Argus (May 1900-Jan 1905).

In August 1908 the weekly Lovelock Review was founded, becoming Lovelock Review-Miner in January 1911 and remaining under that name to the present day. Lovelock was incorporated as a town/city in 1917 and in 1919 it was titled the governmental center of county when Pershing County was carved out of the southern part of Humboldt County.

The town's centenary was jubilated in 1968 with a Frontier Days infamous suggested by two of the founder's great-great granddaughters, Elaine Pommerening and Pat Rowe, who had only recently moved back to Lovelock.

There are also hot air balloon competitions (Lovers Aloft, inaugurated in February 2004) and the Lovelock Street Fever car show, begun in June 2007.

A primary draw is the Lovers Lock Plaza in the shaded region at the back of the Court House where couples symbolise their love by attaching a padlock to an 'endless chain', a practice begun on Valentine's Day, 2005. The following year saw the assembly of a dirt-racing track known as the Lovelock Speedway. Lovelock's tradition buildings include the wooden assembled Grace Methodist Church on the corner of Cornell Avenue and 8th Street, dating from 1886.

Pershing County Court House in Lovelock It is referenced on the debut album of the folk-rock band Center Divide, Lovelock to Winnemucca (1998), a title drawn from the opening lines of the first song there, "Lovelock". The lyrics contemplate lost love as the car speeds down the bleak highway between the Nevada towns.

"Lovelock" is also the second track on Pitch Black's second album, This is the Modern Sound (Revelation Records, 2005). Although the words are difficult to make out, a review informs us that this is a typically punk 'us against the world anthem'. Other music referencing quarrying towns and imagery explain why the name "Lovelock" was chosen.

I began writing a novel that contains "Lovelock" as a chapter in the spring of 1992.' The story was reprinted in the anthology Voices of the Exiled (Doubleday 1994); the novel into which it was incorporated, Out West, appeared in 1996.

In the opening chapters, an orphaned Pony Express rider comes athwart Trent Lovelock and his family on Humboldt Flats in 1860 and is befriended by them. Although George Lovelock had yet to set out for Nevada at that time, the author has acknowledged that he had the town's founder in mind in his fictitious Trent Lovelock. Louis, who was brought up on the small reservation for Lovelock Paiute Indians south of the town.

They include Shaun T Griffin's "Rain outside Lovelock, late March", presented as a broadside by Black Rock Press (Reno, 2010), and two titles in the work of Kirk Robertson.

"Lovelock to Twin Falls" dwells on abandoned shacks in the desert, while "Monday Night, Lovelock" meditates on the abandoned junk that 'people let pile up/around their homes'. Simpson, American football player incarcerated at Lovelock Correctional Center Sarah Winnemucca, champion of the Paiute tribe, established the Peabody Indian School in Lovelock Winnescheika, Shoshone medicine woman, the last suspected witch in the US, executed by Paiute Indians in Lovelock in 1891 "Lovelock Caves, Lovelock Nevada" Nevada - Beautiful.com, Retrieved 14 February 2010.

Toll, A brief Description & History of Lovelock, Nevada, available online Sue Lovelock, From Wiltshire to Nevada tracing the Lovelock connection, Lovelock Lines 4, January 2006 pp.3-5 An early example is on Mitchell's map of Nevada (1872) Thomas Wren, A History of the State of Nevada: Its Resources and People, Lewis Publishing Company 1904 available online Lingenfelter, Karen Rix Gash, The newspapers of Nevada: a history and bibliography, 1854-1979, University of Nevada 1984 pp.144-7 Lovelock, Nevada at DMOZ Julie Nicoletta, Buildings of Nevada, Oxford University Press USA, 2000, ISBN 0-19-514139-3 Yann Lovelock, "Lovelock Avatars", Lovelock Lines 6, December 2007 p.7 "Indian Cemetery: Lovelock, Nevada", Fire Water World, Albuquerque NM, 1989 (ISBN 0931 - 122511 / 0-931122-51-1) Just Past Labor Day: Selected & New Poems, 1969-1995, University of Nevada 1996,p.72 Kofoed: Meanderings in Lovelock Business, Nevada Government, the U.S.

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