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This includes three coal companies, two banks, a laundry, and a department store. Pictorial article includes advertisements from the newspapers and pictures of the buildings that housed them, if pictures were available.

Discover how the Bingham-Garfield Railway, pivotal in Utah's mining history, linked Bingham Canyon's copper mines to Garfield's smelter.

Learn more about the story of ex-teacher Hilda Grabner and her spirited fight for justice during the evacuation of Lark, which earned her the nickname “Joan of Lark!”

Ada Duhigg dedicated 36 years of her life as a Methodist Deaconess and Minister in Bingham Canyon, where she transformed the Highland Boy Community House into a beacon of support, unity, and resilience.

The history of the Kennecott Observation/Visitors’ Centers - describing dates of construction, locations, and amenities.

A brief look into the day of a drilling crew working underground mines in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries. Improvements in mining methods from single-jacking and double-jacking and the invention of the pneumatic drill. The advancement from blasting powder to dynamite. The dangers that miners and especially drilling crews working underground encountered.

Bingham Canyon was home to thousands of immigrants making it an epicenter of diversity. People came from around the world to work in the mines. Diverse towns, such as Frogtown, Dinkyville, and Highland Boy emerged.

On September 18, 1944, two U.S. Marine A-25A Shrike dive bombers crashed into the Oquirrh Mountains southwest of Garfield, Utah. Two pilots and two gunners were killed. Fifty-five years later one of the Shrikes was recovered and shipped to the National Museum of the United States Air Force for possible restoration.

Haul trucks, which replaced animal-drawn carts and grew in number and capacity over the years, have gone through many changes: from the invention of the first dump trucks, to the introduction of the massive Komatsu 930E and Caterpillar 797 trucks.