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  • Summer says

    My dad grew up here (eureka) he has some fun awesome stories. Like the night they were at the movies? And during the scene in Bambi when the fire is raging the bar next door burned down. And the penguin lady that always dressed in black and white. Her husband was a drunk and one night she hid in the alley and almost beat him to death. They ask us to sleigh ride down the hills
    On the hood of a old truck. Very fast and dangerous. Also Emilia Earhart landed her plane there out by the old jesse night silo outside of eureka on the way to Stockton.

  • Debra Howland Brown says

    We grew up in Lark, Utah. Debra Howland Brown daughter of Lawrence Wesley Howland and Emma Jean Starley Howland

  • Katherine Gilbert says

    My family is also from Eureka; my mother grew up there until 1940. My great-grandfather and uncle were mine superintendents (James Creighton, Will Owens); everyone worked in the mines. The family also had spent time in Lark and many other places, as miners were wont to do. My grandmother taught in the (old) grade school for many years…

  • Bethany says

    Love these pictures. Gonna travel there. Might take 4 days and 3 meals but we’re determined to make it. My friend says she won’t even stop for the bathroom and she’s going to wear a diaper. Good thing because she goes a lot! Thanks for the tips! Can’t wait to check it out! Have a good year!

  • Thomas Martin says

    I know this is a long shot, but my family has been searching for any records of my Great Grandmothers birth, who said she was born in Salt Lake Utah in 1866, most of my ancestors appear to have come from mining families in Cornwall, England, and probably worked in small mining towns in Utah and Nevada. Are old mining records, newspapers, cemetery records, whatever? available in the area? My GG’s name is Nettie May Allen, born ~6 May 1866, her Fathers name was John Allen born about 1830, her mother’s name was Lucy Prisby. Any help in regard to this search would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

  • Thomas Martin says

    I know this is a long shot, but my family has been searching for any records of my Great Grandmothers birth, who said that she was born in Salt Lake Utah in 1866, most of my ancestors appear to have come from mining families in Cornwall, England, and probably worked in small mining towns in Utah and Nevada. Are old mining records, newspapers, cemetery records, whatever? available in the area? My GG’s name is Nettie May Allen, born ~6 May 1866, her Fathers name was John Allen born about 1830, her mother’s name was Lucy Prisby. Any help in regard to this search would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.