Corinne Railroad Village Museum - UtahRails.net
2019年9月2日 · Brigham City -- Railroad history of the United States will be preserved in a Railroad Village Museum at Corinne, it was announced Thursday night (September 25). The museum will be constructed by the National Society of Sons of Utah Pioneers and the National Golden Spike Assn., according to Horace A. Sorensen, Salt Lake City, who will act as ...
Corinne, Utah - Wikipedia
Brigham Young assured the demise of Corinne when he and the Mormon people built the narrow-gauge Utah Northern Railroad from Ogden to Franklin, Idaho. Although construction of the line beyond that point ceased for four years as a result of the Panic of 1873 , in the autumn of 1877, the Union Pacific bought the spur line and began pushing it ...
Corinne Utah Is A Tiny Town With A Crazy, Wild History - Only …
Corinne was soon known as the "Gentile Capital of Utah," where miners, railroad workers, shippers and freighters could go for entertainment and commerce. The town served as a supply station for freight wagons, and included stores by Utah businessmen such as Auerbach, the Walker brothers and the Bambergers.
Railroad · Ghost Towns · J. Willard Marriott Library Exhibits
Corinne was a town established along the Union Pacific railroad to become a leading freight-and-transfer station for the region. It was built by non-Mormons to avoid the ban that Brigham Young placed on Church members patronizing Gentile establishments.
Utah History Encyclopedia - Utah Education Network
F or almost ten years from 25 March 1869, the town of Corinne reigned as "The Gentile Capital of Utah." As the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads approached their historic meeting place at Promontory Summit early in 1869, a group of former Union army officers and some determined non-Mormon merchants from Salt Lake City decided to ...
Corinne, UT - Utah Communities WebQuest
Wagons from Corinne carried goods and ore between mines in Montana and the transcontinental railroad. The founders hoped the city might become the state capital. However in 1904 the railroad company built a short cut across the Great Salt Lake, bypassing Corinne and ending the town's profitable shipping business.
Living history: Corinne was Utah's gentile town that became …
2016年6月4日 · A wild Western town of "blood-and-thunder" repute — with 28 saloons, two dance houses, 16 package stores, one gun-toting town marshal and up to 80 "nymphs du pave" — Corinne provided...
The Transcontinental Railroad: A Closer Look: Railroad Camps
2012年2月24日 · Below: A building in Corinne, Utah (own work) As construction on the railroad progressed, many tent towns were set up at night and torn down the next day. Known as Hell-on-Wheels camps, very few of them became permanent.
Utah’s Corinne a ‘Hell on Wheels’ townIJ - Standard-Examiner
2013年8月4日 · With the coming of the railroad, and its proximity to trails leading to mines in Idaho and Montana, Corinne was bound for success. “They bragged about it being the only non-Mormon town in...
History of Corinne in Utah
They chose a location about six miles west of Brigham City on the west bank of the Bear River where the railroad crossed that stream. Named by one of the founders (General J.A. Williamson) for his fourteen-year-old daughter, Corinne was designed to be the freight-transfer point for the shipment of goods and supplies to the mining towns of ...