Immigrants Make Park City Home
Our theme this year at the annual Glenwood Cemetery Tribute event featuring ghosts on Saturday, September 28…
Immigration
The American Dream Torpedoed, part 1
John Edward “Jack” Inman, who was born in Great Britain, wanted an opportunity to be judged based…
This Is Not a Drill
Stipen Marinic was exactly five months shy of his fifteenth birthday when he arrived in the United…
A Look At Park City’s Hispanic and Latino Migration
The presence of Hispanic people in Utah dates back to the early 1500s when the area was…
A Parkite’s Letter Makes A Long Journey
By October 1919, World War I had officially been over for nearly a year and life, at…
Accidents, Misdiagnoses, and Untimely Deaths in Early Park City
Rebecca Simmons was born in Brazil in 1866. Her family came from Cornwall, England, a place where…
A Peruvian Expedition
On October 24, 1888, an expeditionary party consisting of Park City mining men Colonel William M. Ferry…
A Cornish Miner’s Tragedy
Samuel Simmons was born in Redruth, Cornwall, England in 1869. As you may have read in this…
Maritime Disaster Touches Park City
As introduction to this article I would like to acknowledge three people who provided the impetus -…
The Savage Siblings
Nearly 10 million emigrants left Ireland over a two hundred year period that began around 1700 and…
The Singing Cowboys
Music has long floated through Park City’s mountain air. Some Parkites might fondly recall Byron Jones, musical…
Park City’s Early Chinese Residents
Railway spanning the North American continent met in Promontory, Utah on May 10th, 1869. While the Transcontinental…