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In October 1926, Kaysville and Davis County split the bill for a new road over the Kaysville dam. Here’s what else the county commission sorted out that day, from cattle trails to a railroad spur.
One hundred years ago this week, the Davis County Clipper ran a short list headlined “North Salt Lake Growing Rapidly.” Read closely, it shows a community being born.
Ron’s Service Station on Centerville’s Main Street is on the National Register of Historic Places. Here’s what that does, and doesn’t, mean for its future.
Before Lagoon roller coasters, there was Lake Park — a resort the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad opened on the shore of the Great Salt Lake in 1886. For a few summers it was the place to be. Then the lake betrayed it: the water receded so far that the “lakeside” resort was stranded…