Original circa 1900-1910 Photograph of Coalvile Utah Railroad Depot (image: 6-1/2"x8-1/2"). -- Rural countryside with farms/farmhouses & mountains in the distance. -- Train # 934 Steaming through town
Overall condition. "Coalville originally began as a settlement known as Chalk Creek. In 1854, the territorial government in Utah offered a $1000 reward to anyone who could find coal within 40 miles of Salt Lake City. Four years later, Thomas Rhodes found a coal vein in the Chalk Creek area..... More