page_title: Panaca, Nevada
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Panaca, Nevada / History
caption_attribution_description: English: The Panaca Ward Chapel (1867-68), located next to the newer LDS meetinghouse and stake center at 1065 Main Street, Panaca, Nevada. A Nevada State Park System sign to the left of the door identifies this the oldest building in Lincoln County, Nevada. The sign above the door says "Uvada Stake Bishops' Storehouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints".
context_page_description: Panaca is an unincorporated town in eastern Lincoln County, Nevada, United States, on State Route 319, about 1 mile east of U.S. Route 93, near the border with Utah. Its elevation is 4,729 feet above sea level. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 963. It is one of only two cities in Nevada that prohibits gambling, the other being Boulder City.
context_section_description: Panaca was the first permanent settlement by European Americans in southern Nevada. It was founded as a Mormon colony in 1864. It began as part of Washington County, Utah, but the congressional redrawing of boundaries in 1866 shifted Panaca into Nevada. It is the only community in Nevada to be "dry" (forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages), and the only community in Nevada, besides Boulder City, that prohibits gambling.
  Coke ovens here once produced charcoal for the smelters in nearby Bullionville (now a ghost town), but the town's economy is predominantly agricultural.
  The name "Panaca" comes from the Southern Paiute word Pan-nuk-ker, which means "metal, money, wealth". William Hamblin, a Mormon missionary to the Paiutes, established the Panacker Ledge (Panaca Claim) silver mine there in 1864.
caption: The Panaca Ward Chapel (1867–1868) is the oldest building in Lincoln County.
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