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...
1. Albert Winkler, "The Ute Mode of War in the Conilict of 1865-68, Urah Historical Quarrerly, (1 992), p. 301. 2. Utah State Archives #1520, Salt Lake City, Utah 3. Albert Winkler, op.cit., p. 309. 4. Erastus Snow, Erastus Snow Joumal,, Chapter...
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Three Score and Ten in Retrospect
There was no basis available on which the matter could be presented to an existing tribunal. John, therefore, conceived that it would be necessary to have Congress pass special enabling legislation creating a...
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,...