On May 4, 1919 approximately one thousand Park City miners joined forces with organized labor to embark…
Mormons arrived in Utah 21 years prior to ore discovery in Park City and there was inadequate…
(Fifth in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine.) I was born in…
The following article by Donovan Symonds is the first of two on the shared history of Coal…
Welcome back to our second article discussing the impact of the first Transcontinental Railroad on the development…
It is likely that anyone who owns a piece of property is familiar with its legal description.…
The Park City Museum and The Friends of Ski Mountain Mining will be hosting a lecture given by Professor M. Kim McCarter called Which Way Underground? on Wednesday, February 5th …
Park City was a town forged from the mines, but not everybody worked below ground. In order…
Cornwall has a very long history of mining. The region is located on the southeastern peninsula of…
At 11:20pm, July 15, 1902, a powder magazine stored underground at the Daly West mine exploded. At…
On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act nicknamed Obamacare.…
In this final piece of our series covering the history of Deer Valley, we’ll see an overview…
Welcome back to our next article on the history of Deer Valley. Last week we discussed the…
Welcome back for another chapter on the history of Deer Valley before its ski resort days. In…
In last week's article, "Food for Thought," we discussed the culinary connection between today's Deer Valley Cafe…
Mines are dark, dank, and dangerous. When working the claustrophobic tunnels, it surely didn’t take much to…
“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…
John Bogan was a Park City pioneer. He emigrated from Ireland to Illinois in 1857 where he…
The history of “upper Deer Valley” begins with Silver Lake and the area originally called “Lake Flat.”…
We had a lot of rain this past spring. It made for lush and beautiful greenery all…
In 1893, laborers in Park City joined together to form the Western Federation of Miners Union #144.…
A voice often missing in history is that of the child. Though in recent years there has…
Park City has seen plenty of doctors throughout its history. Regular readers of this column, visitors to…
Historical photographs can be puzzles: who took the picture, when, where, and what is the story? These…
Everyone parking off Swede Alley behind the Marsac Municipal Building should know there are two remnants of…
While last week we looked at Deer Valley, this week explores the history of run and lift…
As 2015 draws to a close, we recognize that, like any year, it had its ups and…
In the previous two articles we confirmed the Mayflower’s "unique" history in the Park City Mining District.…
Thanks for joining us for the second installment in this three-part series on the Mayflower, Park City’s…
Most of us driving to or from Heber City pay little attention to exit eight off Route…
This past May the 85-foot-tall head frame of the Daly West Mine collapsed. This "hoist" was the…
If you’ve ever been in complete and utter darkness then you probably remember how your hearing was…
In 1894, the Park Record reported on the construction of the Ontario Drain Tunnel #2, noting that…
When it came to his work, Silver King Mill foreman John Breckenridge Fleming was a perfectionist. In…
Work on the Silver King Aerial Tramway began in August 1900. The construction was scheduled to be…
World-class is an adjective often associated with Park City. It is one of the world’s foremost resort…
Have you ever taken a hike up Woodside Gulch, noticed the timbers on the northwest side of…