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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CKL_transforming-communication-from-coast-to-coast_Corinne-UT.html
Transforming Communication: from Coast to Coast. Not only did the Railroad Act of 1862 lay out a grand plan of connecting the continent by rail, but the legislation called for a communication transformation as well. A telegraph line was to be stru…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZL4_rozel_Corinne-UT.html
Mile 765.0 from San Francisco
This site was christened Victory on April 28, 1869 when Central Pacific Workers rested for lunch after laying six miles of track during the famous laying of ten miles of track in a day. The site was later named R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZL2_centre-siding_Corinne-UT.html
Mile 762.7 from San Francisco
Information about this siding is limited to ambiguous notations amending Central Pacific RR survey plats and profiles.
Onsite investigations have revealed no evidence of occupation.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZKB_corinne-methodist-episcopal-church_Corinne-UT.html
1870
This is the oldest extant Protestant Church building in Utah.
It was dedicated by
Chaplin C.C. McCabe and
Reverend G.M.Peirce on
September 20, 1870
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZK8_corinne-opera-house_Corinne-UT.html
On this site the Corinne Opera House, for many years the largest recreation center in Utah outside of Salt Lake City, was erected in 1879. Built of red pine lumber with square nails, the leading stock companies, California bound on the new railroa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZK5_the-first-weather-station-in-utah_Corinne-UT.html
In 1870 the first U.S. Government weather station in Utah was erected on this site by the War Department Signal Service, U.S. Army Division of Telegrams and Reports, for the benefit of commerce. The observer was William W. McElroy. The station was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZK4_presbyterian-centennial_Corinne-UT.html
The Presbyterian work in Utah began at Corinne June 11, 1969 under Rev. Melancthon Hughes, sent here by Rev. Sheldon Jackson, missionary and educator. This bell was later given to the first congregation. In the first century, the Presbyterians es…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZJS_water-bell_Corinne-UT.html
This bell was brought to Corinne by Hyrum House to warn the community at times when the water was to be shut off. In 1896 it was used to ring in Statehood for the State of Utah. It was rung so hard that day, that it cracked, then was placed on a r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W3I_stairway-to-promontory-historical_Corinne-UT.html
The cut below you on the Union Pacific grade is a good example
of the stair step construction method used by the railroads. The
workers were set to grading, scraping and blasting on several
different levels of a cut at once. This method increas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W3H_ten-miles-of-track-historical_Corinne-UT.html
Ten miles
of
track, laid
in one day.
April 28th, 1869