Lovelock

Lovelock owes its formal beginning to the railroad, but was important to travelers many years before the first train arrived. The site was known to pioneers of the 1840s and 1850s as Big Meadows because it was an important place to rest and water animals before crossing the Forty-Mile Desert. The meadows that sustained the first pioneers in the area were later used to develop flourishing livestock and agricultural industries. They remain a central part of Lovelock's economy, and today the area is one of the nation's leading producers of alfalfa.

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