Lake mead water levels: drought has uncovered human remains and entire town. Dropping water levels mean that the ghost town that emerged from the lake, ...
[recovered](https://travelnevada.com/ghost-town/st-thomas-ghost-town/) hundreds of artifacts. [Atlas Obscura](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/st-thomas-nevada), he waited until the town was drowning before he set fire to his own home and sailed away. [McArthur said](https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2596&context=thesesdissertations) that Latter-day Saint women in the area were determined to fund a Relief Society hall. [Nevada Magazine.](https://nevadamagazine.com/issue/september-october-2019/11227/) The town even had a hotel and an ice cream parlor — Hannig’s Ice Cream Parlor. Lake Mead began to be filled in 1935 and the area slowly became flooded. This dam led to the creation of Lake Mead. According to [Deseret News](https://www.deseret.com/2019/5/29/20674199/picturing-history-st-thomas-clark-county-nevada), the town was named after Thomas Smith — a member of one of the 45 different families who began settling this area. Residents were concerned that the taxes of silver and gold that were required would be misused, per the [Deseret News](https://www.deseret.com/2019/5/29/20674199/picturing-history-st-thomas-clark-county-nevada). Thomas did not have indoor plumbing or electricity, [memoirs indicate](https://www.nps.gov/lake/learn/nature/st-thomas-nevada.htm) that residents were enchanted by their simple life. The town soon featured a church, post office, a school and grocery stores, and [was once home](https://www.nps.gov/lake/learn/nature/st-thomas-nevada.htm) to settlements of the Ancestral Puebloans and Basket-Makers. This means that the ghost town that has emerged from the lake, St.