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J. C. Penney Corporation

19 Thursday Jan 2023

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J. C. Penney Corporation

Built in 1941.

JCPenney moved into this building in the early 1940s. Children were fascinated by the store’s clear tubes that delivered customers payments to cash registers centrally located on the building’s mezzanine floor.

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9056 West 2700 South in Magna, Utah

Pinball Hall of Fame

23 Friday Dec 2022

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4925 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, Nevada

Mob Museum

18 Sunday Dec 2022

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The Mob Museum is located in the historic Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse at 300 Stewart Avenue in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Atomic Museum

16 Friday Dec 2022

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Atomic Museum
755 East Flamingo Road in Las Vegas, Nevada

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Layton Heritage Museum

28 Monday Nov 2022

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Layton Heritage Museum

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  • Kenley Amphitheater
  • Layton/Jennings Mill
  • Layton’s Little Fort
  • Time Capsule
  • The Val A. and Edith D. Green Room
  • Verdeland Park
  • Weinel Mill

Located at Layton Commons Park at 437 N Wasatch Drive in Layton, Utah

The Helper Museum

27 Sunday Nov 2022

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The Helper Museum

Located at 294 South Main Street in Helper, Utah

Some of the historic markers located here:

  • Caboose No. 55
  • Curved Trestle Bridge
  • Helper Hotel
  • The Helper Train Mosaic
  • Historic Helper Main Street
  • Miners Safety Lamp
  • Traveling Roundhouse

White Pine Public Museum

17 Wednesday Aug 2022

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White Pine Public Museum
2000 East Aultman Street in Ely, Nevada.

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  • 4th of July Celebration Mural
  • Nevada Northern Railway (State Historic Marker #100)
  • Pony Express Monument

Donner-Reed Memorial Museum

16 Thursday Jun 2022

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Donner-Reed Memorial Museum

This property was within the walls of the Willow Creek Fort, (Grantsville), which was built shortly after the first white settlers arrived. The main building was erected in 1852. J. Reuben Clark II purchased the property in later years and restored the building. The site was eventually donated to Grantsville City for use as a museum. The log cabin and blacksmith shop were placed here in later years.

This museum is named for the Donner-Reed Party. In 1846 they stopped at nearby Twenty Wells to let their animals rest and gain strength before continuing their ill fated trip. While crossing the Salt Desert they lost many wagons and other belongings on the mud flats east of Pilot Mountain. The hardships suffered in Utah delayed their journey. Winter overtook them in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, resulting in their well known catastrophe. Some to the articles left by the Donner-Reed Party are displayed in this museum, along with other pioneer and Indian relics.

This monument contains cornerstones and markers from early Grantsville Buildings. Refurbishment of the area began July 1975 and was completed July 1976. Funds were from Utah American Revolution Bicentennial Commission and Grantsville City Corporation.

There are a lot of historic markers outside the museum, individual pages for them are here:

  • The Cherokee Trail
  • Donner-Reed Memorial Museum
  • Emigrant Graves
  • Twenty Wells
  • Grantsville Fort (across the street)

The building was originally erected by the Grantsville Branch,

  • Grantsville Branch Chapel

Below is the first jail in Grantsville was built in 1863. This cage was originally housed inside of a rock building on the north side of the current museum.

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This cabin was erected by settlers in approximately 1853 and was originally located two blocks east of this site on the “Jeffries Property.”

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This pioneer blacksmith shop was originally located about two blocks east of this site. The blacksmith was so important in pioneer life that many communities offered him a parcel of land to set up shop for an agreed length of time.

The roof on this blacksmith shop was refurbished by Jordan Mills as his Eagle Scout Project in 2010.

Flag Pole Eagle Project by Danny Adams in May 2006

Daggett Museum

07 Tuesday Jun 2022

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The Daggett Museum in Daggett, California.

Scipio Town Hall

22 Saturday Jan 2022

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Built in 1935, the Scipio Town Hall is one of over 230 public works buildings constructed in Utah under various New Deal programs during the Depression years of the 1930’s and 40’s. The types of buildings constructed included schools, county courthouses, libraries, National Guard Armories and a variety of others. The Scipio Town Hall was intended for use both as a town hall and as a meeting place for all civic and political functions in the community. Two Scipio men Will and Lew Critchley were the brick and stone masons on the building. Several years after construction, probably in the late 1940’s, the brick vestibule on the front was added. This building is a good example of the stylized classicism associated with the PWA Moderne architectural style in Utah. The building was renovated in 1986 with funds raised principally by the Round Valley Camp of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers to be used as a museum for the D.U.P. and as a Senior Citizens Center.

Located at approximately 49 North State Street in Scipio, Utah and added to the National Register of Historic Places (#88002999) on December 22, 1988.

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Built in 1935, the Scipio Town Hall is part of the Public Works Buildings Thematic Resource nomination and is significant because it helps document the impact of New Deal programs in Utah, which was one of the states that the Great Depression of the 1930s most severely affected. In 1933 Utah had an unemployment rate of 36 percent, the fourth highest in the country, and for the period 1932-1940 Utah’s unemployment rate averaged 25 percent. Because the depression hit Utah so hard, federal programs were extensive in the state. Overall, per capita federal spending in Utah during the 1930s was 9th among the 48 states, and the percentage of workers on federal work projects was far above the national average. Building programs were of great importance. During the 1930s virtually every public building constructed in Utah, including county courthouses, city halls, fire stations, national guard armories, public school buildings, and a variety of others, were built under federal programs by one of several agencies, including the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the National Youth Administration (NYA), the Works Progress Administration (WPA), or the Public Works Administration (PWA), and almost without exception none of the buildings would have been built when they were without the assistance of the federal government.

The Scipio Town Hall is one 233 public works buildings identified in Utah that were built during the 1930s and early 1940s. Only 130 of those 233 buildings are known to remain today and retain their historic integrity. Twenty-two city halls were built; this is one of 17 that remain. In Millard County 10 buildings were constructed, of which only 6 remain.

The Scipio Town Hall was constructed as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project and was intended for use both as a town hall and as a meeting place for all civic and political functions in the community. Two Scipio men, Will and Lew Critchley, were the brick and stone masons on the building. Several years after the building was constructed, the town board decided to add a sloping floor and put in some theatre seats so the townsfolk could enjoy a movie every Friday and Saturday night. Also at that time the brick vestibule on the front was added. The town board continued to hold their meetings in the basement of the building for a number of years after that. The building was vacant for several years until being renovated as a senior citizen center in 1985-86.

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