Mormon Station location lecture at museum

Staff Reports

Archivist Jeff Kintop speaks on "Where the Heck is Old Mormon Station?" at the Douglas County Historical Society's lecture of the month, 7 p.m. Thursday, at the Carson Valley Museum & Cultural Center, 1477 Highway 395, Gardnerville. Admission $3, free for historical society members. Information, 782-2555.

Kintop researched the location of old Mormon Station for Associated Press writer Martin Griffin in 2004 and his conclusions place the old station right where Mormon Station State Historic Park is in Genoa, not one mile north of the town as historical markers indicate.

His slide presentation includes a Supreme Court case he uncovered while doing his research. In the case, Joseph Jones vs. John Q. Adams, many of Carson Valley's first settlers testify as to where they were and what they were doing in the 1850s.

Kintop is state archivist at the Nevada State Library and Archives. He has been at the Nevada State Library and Archives since 1983, except for five months in 2005 when he was the acting director of the Nevada State Railroad Museum. He has been in charge of all the special projects of the State Archives, including 30 grant projects for arrangement and description, preservation needs assessments, special studies, exhibits planning, workshops and conferences, including National History Day in Nevada.

Kintop's activities in national and regional archival organizations and historical societies include being president of the Washoe County Historical Society and a board member of the Nevada Judicial Historical Society.

His main historical interests are the histories of Nevada government and Nevada Territory. He co-authored "What Time is This Place?" (1982), "Preserving Nevada's Documentary Heritage," (1986), "History of the State Capitol and Governor's Mansion," (1986) and "The Earps' Last Frontier: Wyatt and Virgil Earp in Nevada, 1897-1905," (1989).