wendover report no. 11

The Lincoln School in Metropolis, Nevada, opened in 1914 and closed in 1947 and is pretty much all that is left of the town. Metropolis was a planned ranching and farming community founded in 1909 that reached an estimated population of 20,000 people, but water shortages and bad luck had it’s way with the town and by the 1950s it was all but abandoned. Below is the road to Metropolis, the town of Wells is about twenty miles away. These pictures were taken at 5:45 am on May 17, 2007.