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Bacchus, Utah
Bacchus is a small community on U-111, on the eastern slopes of the Oquirrh Mountains. Bacchus was the former site of the small pioneer Village of Coonville. The name was changed from Coonville to Bacchus in 1915 when the Hercules Powder Company established an explosives manufacturing plant there. They named the community in honor of T. E. Bacchus, vice president of the company and superintendent of the Bacchus plant. With improved transportation the workers moved to a more favorable location. Between 1930 and 1960 the town deteriorated into a ghost town. (from Utah Place Names by John Van Cott)
I grew up in Bacchus Village, our house was the first big house on the loop with a coal stocker heat. The house was haunted and scary to be alone in. I loved living up the hill and the grounds were always impeccable. I was hunting for a picture of the house to show my children and grandchildren the house I lived in as a young girl into my teen yrs. my mother divorced her husband who was an electrical engineer at Hercules. My step sister continued to live there years after and at my mothers funeral Jan 2021 told me it was still very haunted through the years. I heard they may have been torn down but I’m not sure. I remember the school bus full of kids hated driving all the way up the hill to take us home and complained on a regular basis. Lol. Good times.