Silver Reef, Utah p.6

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Title Silver Reef, Utah p.6
Collection Classified Photograph Collection
File Name 39222001442438
Photo Number 15853
Creator Crockwell and Ottinger
Publisher Utah State History
Date 1880
Subject Mining towns; Deserts; Abandoned buildings
Spatial Coverage Silver Reef; Washington County; Utah
Description Grapevine Springs, sagebrush plain and red sandstone mesa just northeast of Silver Reef, Utah. Settled in 1866, silver was soon discovered in a sandstone ledge. By the 1880s the reef was mined out and the town abandoned.
Rights Management Digital Image © 2012 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Holding Institution Utah State History
Relation Classified Photograph Collection, 979.2 Utah Cities
Source Format Print Photograph
Source Size 8 x 10
Source Donors Charbonneau, Eugene G.
Type Image
Format image/jpeg
Scanned By Karl Nicholson and Earl Hindley, USHS
ARK ark:/87278/s6rj4vjw
Setname dha_cp
ID 453711
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rj4vjw
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