Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Confrontations with ‘monster’ rattlesnakes in early Utah

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                           A snake warning sign, just off the road, north of Boise, Id. RATTLESNAKES are a critical part of Utah’s...
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

1856: When Salt Lake City was reported to have been sunk by an earthquake

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                      Elementary students wading in the Great Salt Lake. THE Deseret News of May 21, 1856 reported that some eastern U...
Monday, February 3, 2020

1907: When Davis County farmers had too much water

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A rain storm in 2015 left deep puddles of water in Layton City, near Hill Field Road and Main Street. "Farmers in Davis face hard ...

When there were "Heaps of ruins in Davis County'

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"Heaps of ruins in Davis County" was an Oct. 23, 1906 headline in the Salt Lake Republican newspaper. "Storm does treme...

Road to Francis Peak completed in 1938; The 1940 proposal to run the road all the way to Parley's Canyon

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                                                A sign at the top of Farmington Canyon. THE 5-mile dirt road from the top of Farmington ...

How about 'Dern' Air Force Base, instead of Hill AFB? Plus, Utah's version of Kitty Hawk flying

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                        Hill Air Force Base, as seen from the Layton foothills. WHAT IF? It could have been that Hill Air Force Base ...

1900: When you could walk to Antelope Island; Plus, when a sandbar helped build a causeway

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YOU could walk to Antelope Island in the year 1990, thanks to a low level of the Great Salt Lake. Yes, lakeside resorts were strugg...