Near this site stood the Pleasant Valley Coal Company office and store.
On April 21, 1897, in of of the most daring daylight robberies, Butch Cassidy, Elsa Lay and Bob Meeks robbed paymaster E. L. Carpenter and made off with over $8000.00 in gold and silver of which only approximately $1000.00 was ever recovered.
This historic marker is located at the Castle Gate Historic Marker Highway Pull-Off with several others (listed on this page) and was erected July 24th, 1982 by the Utah Outpost, Mountain Charlie Chapter No. 1850, E Clampus Vitus
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