On January 8, 1908, 57-year-old mining promoter Nicholas Treweek filed a lawsuit in United States Circuit Court…
It was just after four o’clock in the afternoon of August 18, 1923 when James Healey and…
Nearly four decades after it was first proposed the Park City—Alta tunnel idea was resurrected by United…
In 1939, the Bureau of Reclamation (BoR) proposed delivery of one million acre-feet of water annually from…
Entry into World War II left Park City’s mines shorthanded. By early 1942, a total of 346…
The Keetley Depot in its original state before being moved to Park City. The Parkite seniors were…
In November of 1946, “two ski lovers and sportsmen,” Otto Carpenter and Bob Burns, approached Mel Fletcher,…
It is likely that anyone who owns a piece of property is familiar with its legal description.…
On Friday, May 8, 1953 the two largest mining firms in the Park City district, the Silver…
Unlike this year, Tuesday, June 18, 1940 broke all records for June heat when Salt Lake City…
This story is continued from June 19, 2019. Reeling from the death of his five-year-old daughter, Rockport,…
It is often said that losing a child is the most enduring pain a parent can suffer. …
Think for a minute what it would be like to bail out of an airplane from 14,000…
Nothing captures the fascination of a small town like the local high school football team playing for…
When the Silver King Aerial Tramway opened on June 6, 1901, engineers deemed it a world class,…
I am 118 years old, as are my remaining thirty-five siblings. Originally we numbered thirty-nine, a very…
There is little doubt that R. T. Freng’s heroic actions on the evening of March 11, 1929…
Welcome back to our second article on the first plane crash in Park City’s history. Last week…
Our story begins on Sunday morning March 10, 1929 in the Mission Hills District of San Diego,…
On November 17, 1941, a B-18 Army bomber fell from the sky above Park City, engulfed in…
Just after midnight on November 17, 1941, Park City witnessed the fatal crash of B-18 Army bomber…
As the old proverb says, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Unless it is a…
Showing much good sense, the 24-year-old Silver King Coalition Mine’s Master Mechanic Frank Stone married Park City’s…
An experienced carpenter working at the Silver King mine asked his novice assistant to get him some…
On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act nicknamed Obamacare.…
The United States Marine Corps War Memorial is located on a high ridge overlooking the nation’s capital.…
Morning came early for Jim Murphy on Thursday, September 20, 1917. At daybreak, a bugler sounded reveille…
In honor of Veteran’s Day on November 11, we’re going to spend the next few weeks profiling…
“Development work is also being pushed from the Snake Creek tunnel side with a view of tapping…
Who owns the water in a drain tunnel dug by a mining company – the irrigation company…
If a mining company drives a tunnel nearly three miles into the heart of a mountain it…