Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Ideal Beach at Bear Lake - 110 years of "Rich" (County) History

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                                         Looking west along the Ideal Beach shoreline. ALMOST 57 years before Sweetwater development compan...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

Clearing up Utah Pioneer History: "Old Emigrant Road" vs. "Pioneer Trail" in Hooper, Weber County

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                                    Emigrant Road monument sign on 3700 S. Bluff Street, Syracuse. UTAH HISTORY can be confusing, especia...
Monday, April 1, 2024

Sixteen Vintage Photographs of Lagoon Park

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  What follows are 16 vintage/old photographs of Lagoon Amusement Park, Farmington, Utah. All pictures are from the Deseret News Archives an...
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Saturday, July 1, 2023

The 'Fruit Heights Dinosaur' appears on the mountainside

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  Look at the dinosaur-like shape, south of the Francis Peak Radar domes, Picture taken from Layton's Main Street at 1000 North.        ...
Friday, August 6, 2021

Newspapers.com equals the only real time travel

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Newspapers, like the Deseret News, have a wealth of information in their archives.   HAVE you ever dreamed of traveling through time?   OLD...
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

When Davis County's Bluff Road was gated

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  BLUFF Road is a prominent north-south corridor road in west Davis County today. The highway traverses through Syracuse on the south and p...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

The mystery of Utah’s ‘Mountain of Christ’: Monte Cristo

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                         Monte Cristo Peak, center, 9,148 feet above sea level. MANY decades before a viable seasonal highway (...