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Rockport Reservoir

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Rockport Lake Utah
Rockport Lake Utah

Rockport Reservoir, also called Wanship Reservoir, is a reservoir along the Weber River within the Rockport State Park in southwestern Summit County, Utah, United States.

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84017
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Oscar F. Lyons House
Oscar F. Lyons House

The Oscar F. Lyons House, on Woodenshoe Rd. in Peoa, Utah, was built around 1875–1880. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.It is a two-story house which was deemed "a good example of late nineteenth century vernacular architecture in Utah." It was built with "horizontal plank-on-plank wall construction and covered with ship-lap or novelty siding. The house has a common rafter gabled roof and brick gable-end stove chimneys. The symmetrical three-bay facade is characteristic of the central-passage I house vernacular type. Principal decorative features include Gothic wall dormers over the second story facade windows, a gabled portico supported by turned and bracketed posts, and projecting bay windows on the facade at the ground level."It was originally not painted, but was painted white around 1980. Despite some modifications, it was deemed to be in "excellent original condition."The house was built by or for Oscar Fitzallen Lyons and his wife Maria. Lyons (1838–1908) was born in Ireland and came to Utah with his parents in 1849. Through the 1860s Peoa was a small settlement consisting of a fort built of single-room log cabins, and was abandoned for a time in 1867-68 due to hostilities with Indians. In 1869 Oscar married Maria L. Marchant, daughter of the leading citizen of Peoa, Abraham Marchant. After the town became more settled, they built the house. Lyons was a farmer, stockraiser, and postmaster.It was later owned by Reuben Jensen, the "Federal trapper" for the area.

Snyderville Basin

The Snyderville Basin is a valley in Summit County, Utah adjacent to Park City. Many of the residents of the Park City area live in the Snyderville Basin. Though the area lies outside of the Park City limits, and receives many services from Summit County instead of Park City, it is part of the Park City School District. Major landmarks within the Snyderville basin include Canyons Village at Park City, Utah Olympic Park, Swaner EcoCenter, and the Kimball Junction commercial centers. The Snyderville Basin is named for the pioneer community of Snyderville, named for Samuel Comstock Snyder, a Mormon pioneer who opened a sawmill in the 1850s. Lumber was one of the area's earliest economic drivers as were stagecoach, mail, and hospitality services along the major east-west travel corridor that passed through Kimball Junction, named for stagecoach impresario William Henry Kimball. In the 1870s, silver was discovered in Park City, and the Snyderville area became economically integrated into the adjacent boom town. Though many people and businesses are currently located in the area that was once the settlement of Snyderville, there is no actual town center and no independent governance. The area has several residential neighborhoods, a convenience store, an elementary school, a nursery, a small office park, and some farm land. A sign marks the area as Snyderville, and mail addressed to Snyderville will be delivered, though most residents use a Park City mailing address.

Road Island Diner
Road Island Diner

The Road Island Diner is a rare classic Streamline Moderne 60' x 16' Art Deco diner car restaurant located in the remote mountain city of Oakley, Utah, in the United States. It was prefabricated as diner # 1107 in 1939 at the Elizabeth, New Jersey, factory of the Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company. After construction, it was displayed on exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. After the Fair, It was sold to Al McDermott who had it towed it to Fall River, Massachusetts, where it operated for 14 years. In 1953, it was sold to Greek immigrant Tommy Borodemos, who had it transported down the turnpike to Middletown, Rhode Island, where it operated for 4 generations as Tommy's Deluxe Diner. It closed in May 2006 and was purchased in 2007 by Utah businessman, Keith Walker, who transported it to Oakley, Utah. After a year of restoration, it was opened in July 2008. It is said to be the only pre-war, Art-deco streamline (constructed to mimic a rail dining car) diner west of the Mississippi River.Claimed to have been the "Cadillac" of diner companies because of its steel frame construction, The Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey, whose motto was "In our line, We lead the world" was said to have produced 2,000 diners from 1917 to 1941 with only four pre-war Art-Deco streamline style diners to still be in operation. The smaller 50' x 10' Mickey's Diner serial # 1067 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, which is the first diner to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the 40' x 16' Collin's Diner serial # 1103 in North Canaan, Ct. and the 1938 Summit Diner in Summit, N.J. The Road Island Diner (O'Mahony Dining Car #1107) was added to the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service on August 21, 2009.