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SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Utah is home to many cities dating back a hundred years — but not every city has survived until the modern day. The remnants of those former cities — ghost towns ...
The majority of Utah ghost towns have slipped away with little or no trace remaining. A handful are preserved and restored to give visitors a glimpse into what life was like for early Utah pioneers.
In Utah, ghost towns generally once were places where mining or agriculture was booming, but something happened to them. Graves are pictured at the cemetery in Silver City on May 28.
OLD IRON TOWN, Utah (ABC4) — A man was hospitalized Monday after being gored by a bull in Old Iron Town, according to the Iron County Sheriff’s Office. Iron County authorities responded to Old ...
Silver Reef: the disappearing ghost town. For a brief time in the late 1800s, Southern Utah had its own little piece of the Wild West. When Silver Reef boomed, it really boomed.
Filmmaker Emily Kaye Allen came back to Utah, 15 years after she moved away, when she met Eileen Muza, the sole resident of a ghost town in Grand County. Allen's documentary, "Cisco Kid," profiles ...
In 1889, 46 Hawaiians moved to Salt Lake City to join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After facing discrimination, the settlers relocated to the desert, building a town called Iosepa.
A town in southern Utah was taken over by tumbleweeds. Wind blew thousands of weeds into south Jordan. They formed piles as high as 10 feet. People called it Tumblegeddon (ph).
At the mouth of Dragon Canyon, ruins of a once bustling mining town still remain. The town — known as Silver City — was home to stores, hotels, restaurants, a post office and a saloon. Cowboy ...
In 1889, 46 Hawaiians moved to Salt Lake City to join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After facing discrimination, the settlers relocated to the desert, building a town called Iosepa.