Emery County (Utah); Castle Dale (Utah); Anderson Hotel
"A hotel was constructed on First East and Main Street by O.J. Anderson. Rooms were rented and meals were served, and salesmen would go out of their way to get a room there and enjoy the bounteous meals."
Emery County (Utah); Castle Dale (Utah); Courthouse
"The new buidling was built under the Federal Emergency Administration Public Works Program, at a cost of $65,000. It was built in 1938-39. It was adequate with rooms to spare, for the needs of the County until the late '70's. Then with the coming...
Emery County (Utah); Dinosaurs; Cleveland Lloyd Quarry; Allosaurus; Museum
22 foot Allosaurus Antodemus skeleton taken from the Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry. The quarry contains the densest concentration of Jurassic fossils ever found. How the dinosaurs ended up in the area is a mystery. It appears as though many...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Eastering; Horse and Wagons; Geary, Elmo, Easter
A closeup of image0-275; Elmo Geary and his teenage friends went to the San Rafael Swell in horse drawn wagons in 1929 over Easter Weekend. This tradition of Emery County residents spending Easter on the San Rafael Swell or "Desert" as it is...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; CCC
A crew of young men and their leaders working on Ferron Mountain. There were 200 boys in that camp the first year and 47 married girls from Emery County. The Civilian Conservation Corps throughout the United States built 125,000 miles of roads,...
Emery County (Uath); Emery (Utah); Quilts; Relief Society;
A group of women quilting and showing quilts in Emery Town. This is the Relief Society who had been quilting and making quilts for a compassionate service project.
A mile east of the San Rafael Bridge in a little cove in the Sinbad area is the Cowboy's stock corral built by Paul Judd in the early 1900s. The white rock standing out in the middle is where they store extra feed.
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Stock Corral; Wild Horses
A mile east of the San Rafael Bridge in a little cove is the Sinbad Cowboys stock corral, built by Paul Judd in the early 1900s. The white rock standing out in the middle of the photo is the area where they stored extra feed for their wild horses.
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Swasey, Charles
A painting of Charley Swasey the oldest of the San Rafael Swasey Brothers--Charley, Rod, Sid and Joe. Charley has many descendents still in the Castle Valley area.
A photo listed as "Inside the Swasey Bank." Rodney Swasey, the father of the Swasey boys, owned a bank in the Springville or Provo area in the late 1800s.
A photo of Maryetta taken later in her life, 1939. She was 70 years old, born in 1869. Joe was born in 1861 and died in 1930 at the age of 69. She had been a widow for 9 years, in this picture and died two years later in 1941. Joe and Mary Etta...
Emery County (Utah) Archives; Jewkes, A.G.; Actors; Drama; Shakespearean Plays; Salt Lake Theater
A photograph of A.G. Jewkes in character and costume for the Shakespearean play, Merchant of Venice, in which he played the part of Bassanio and as such, he signed this photograph--"Respectfully Bassanio, A.G.J." This play was presented by the Utah...
Johnson, George Washington; Nauvoo Temple Janitor; Huntington (Utah)
A photograph of George Washington Johnson later in his life. He had been the janitor of the Nauvoo Temple and was the last one to lock it up. They keys were given to the new Nauvoo Temple and hang there with his photograph. After moving west with...