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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZJN_bonneville-salt-flats-international-speedway_Wendover-UT.html
The salt flats were formed as ancient Lake Bonneville slowly evaporated and deposited concentrations of salt onto this playa. Shorelines carved into the mountainsides are visible to the north along the Silver Island range and extend to the Salt La…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZJM_hasting-cutoff-barren-mountains_Wendover-UT.html
"The roads were gravelly round the end of some high rocks. Barren mountains (Silver Island)." — Robert Chalmers, July 27, 1850
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ESO_goshute-tribe_Ibapah-UT.html
Goshute people were one band of many Shoshone Indiansliving in the Great Basin Region
The term "Gosiute" means "Kusiutta" describing their original dusty, well-traveled look. Goshute people inhabited the lush riparian areas of the region includ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CT0_south-base-area_Wendover-UT.html
Looking south, there are several bunkers visible which were used to store the munitions used in training. Buildings to the right of the bunkers were used late in the wartime period for the development of the atomic bombs, Little Boy & Fat Man as w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A17_garfield-lake-point-resorts_Tooele-UT.html
From 1881 to 1893 Garfield Beach was the most famous and finest recreation resort on the shores of Great Salt Lake, with its railroad station, lunch stand, restaurant, bath houses and pier leading to the dance pavilion, and with the pioneer steamb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19ZJ_cedar-mountains-wild-horse-range_Elko-UT.html
Between 1820 and 1860, explorers and settlers followed a route to California which passed this site. One group, the Donner-Reed party, inched their way through rugged Hastings Pass only to face tragedy in the High Sierras.
Now wild horses follo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19Q2_welcome-to-the-bonneville-salt-flats_Pittsburgh-UT.html
Utah's famed measured mile is located approximately seven miles beyond this marker, well in front of the mountains you see on the horizon. The elevation along that course is approximately 4,218 feet above sea level. *** The total length of the cou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19Q1_first-transcontinental-telephone-line_Pittsburgh-UT.html
On June 17, 1914, the first transcontinental telephone line was completed near this point on the border of Nevada and Utah at Wendover. Construction forces of the Bell Telephone Company of Nevada and the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Com…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA2_base-chapel_Wendover-UT.html
A community, such as the one created by the military in Wendover, wouldnot have been complete without a base chapel for the spiritual guidance of men and women assigned to the base.Chaplains were needed to assist in the mental and moral struggles …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8A_iosepa-settlement-cemetery_Grantsville-UT.html
Mormon Church converts from Polynesia settled in Skull Valley in 1889-1917, working for the Church-owned Iosepa Agriculture and Stock Company.
Their settlement located ½ mile to the southwest, and named Iosepa (Joseph) after Joseph F. Smi…