Showing posts with label Fremont Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fremont Island. Show all posts
Thursday, February 11, 2021

When Lagoon held a 'Bathing Girls' Revue'; Plus more history

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BACK in 1918, Lagoon resort hauled in plenty of white sand to Farmington, to create its own version of "Walkiki Beach.” To hig...

Great Salt Lake tales of quicksand, unlucky equines and a phantom coyote

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Is this pond of water along the sandbar to Fremont Island actually a pool of "quicksand" in the Great Salt Lake? Perhaps, as m...
Thursday, January 9, 2020

Condos and homes on Fremont Island?

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                 Fremont Island is not much of an island these days, with a low Great Salt Lake. ARE condos in the future for Fremont ...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Back when a human life in Utah was ‘worth’ only $2.66 and when 41 head of cattle drowned in the Great Salt Lake

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                                              A modern day traffic accident in Layton City.   “ONE human life -- $2.66. That is the ...
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

The Kit Carson Cross – A pre-Mormon relic in the Great Salt Lake

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By Lynn Arave PERHAPS the most legendary of pre-Mormon Pioneer artifacts in the Ogden area is the famous Kit Carson Cross on lonel...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

The not so great Great Salt Lake

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                                      The dry docks at Antelope Island State Park. THE Great Salt Lake isn't what it used to b...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

1922: When Antelope Island was in the running for a Utah State Prison

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                              The north shore of Antelope Island. “State prison may be moved. Committee named to consider Antelop...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

From a ‘Lakemobile’ to a stroll to Fremont Island

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  The "lakemobile" that Charles Stoddard used to cross the GSL to Fremont Island in.                       ...