Lake Mead's falling water levels are revealing a US ghost town submerged by its waters 90 years ago

As Lake Mead's water levels continue to fall, numerous headlines are being made. Among them lies one about the reemergence of one of the country's ghost towns. St. Thomas, Nevada is visible again on the floor of the lake and visitors can once more walk along its former streets, lined with foundations and remnants of its old buildings. But how did an entire town disappear beneath 60 feet of water?A Mormon town lost to Hoover DamSt. Thomas was founded in 1865 by a group of Mormon settlers, who believed they had found a hugely valuable piece of ground near the Muddy River.According to a report by Diario AS, St. Thomas was founded in 1865 by a group of Mormon settlers. They believed they had found a hugely valuable piece of ground near the Muddy River. The settlers constructed irrigation systems and turned the desert into farmland, which attracted new settlers after many of the original Mormons left a few years later, mainly due to a tax dispute over whether the land was in Nevada or Utah.Initially, original settlers aimed to grow cotton and open a supply route between California and Utah using the Colorado River. The pioneers learned that the heat, pests such as mosquitoes and scorpio...