While Goodsprings survived the recent upheavals and its settlers continue to scratch out an existence among the ruined ranch houses, trouble is keen on finding a way into the town. To make matters worse, most traders simply pushed through toward either Primm or New Vegas, unless they're in dire need of supplies. Signs at the highway, pointing travelers towards Goodsprings, are simply of no use if there's no one to read them. As a result, the town's primary products, namely water, bighorner meat, and skins, have a hard time reaching traders. They caused the town's population to drop to about a dozen after the prison break at the NCR Correctional Facility unleashed the powder gangers on the region, while a deathclaw infestation at the Quarry Junction all but blocked off the Long 15 north.

Beyond supplying water to Republican miner, trappers, and farmers, it was a quiet, small town that saw little activity, until a series of setbacks shut down the Long 15.

It was settled shortly before 2281, under a New California Republic grant in order to develop a low-risk mining environment near a reliable source of potable water, the Goodsprings source. Īfter the Great War, Goodsprings was abandoned, but its springs have not dried up. The boom wound down after World War I and the economic crisis that followed, briefly picking up after World War II. More infrastructure followed, including the Goodsprings schoolhouse and Prospector Saloon in 1913 (the latter as Pioneer Saloon). Platted by mining companies from Salt Lake City, Goodsprings boomed, aided by the construction of a railroad between 19. The small mining settlement was largely tent cabins centered around a mill and a post office before the town was officially established in the early 1900s, during the mining boom across Nevada. Named after Joseph Good, a rancher whose cattle used the spring at the southeastern foothills of Spring Mountains, Goodsprings history is tied closely to the freshwater spring the town takes its name from and the rich deposits of lead, silver, copper, zinc and gold that were exploited for decades.

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