LA PLATA
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NAME: La Plata COUNTY: Cache ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: Heavy snow in winter warm in summer BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring ,summer,fall, |
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This is on private land you have to ask permission but access is granted REMAINS: Few cabins, and a few mines |
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This was a old silver mining town dont know when it started and do not know when it ended(sorry) this town is located just below monti cristo Submitted by: Shayne Blakeley During the 1860's, due to the construction of the Railroads through Utah,
Wyoming and Colorado, as a spark, set into motion a flood of prospecting
and mining into Cache Counties rouged Wasatch Mountains, probing for valuable
minerals. All of the larger, and more successful mines where established
within 35 miles of Salt Lake City, and by 1890 mining was big in Utah.
There were many claims of Gold and Silver, but no extraordinary load was
found. Within the next few years, talk of mining was rumour and excitement.
Quite unexpectedly, H.C. Jackson of 1891 placed his claim of near-pure
Galena Ore in the Mountains. The claim came as a shock to Cache County,
and the claim was revealed in the County seat's (Logan's) newspaper. Though
the location of the claim wasn't revealed to the Public, the great news
began to seep beyond Cache and Weber Counties, across Utah and Wyoming.
Jackson, along with Eight other miners met at the - then recently constructed
Mine. In the following days, they named the establishment "La Plata",
a Spanish word, the feminine pronunciation of Silver. At this point of
August 1891, the Camp consisted of Tents and Large dugouts. In the latter
weeks of that August, in Jackson's effort to bring order to chaos he erected
a "Liberty Pole", where the miners and villagers of the new community
could inscribe their names as an agreement of cooperation and respect,
from this point onward, La Plata was nick named as Liberty Pole. By October
La Plata, now a Town, was recorded of being a home to a population of over
1,000 people and had at least 1,500 visitors every day (as reported by
a Journalist from the Ogden). La Plata began to die during the harsh winter
of 1891-92, when the Towns people began to leave their homes, not to return
to La Plata, where many of their friends and family where killed in the
cold weather. The Towns heyday had come to an abrupt end, every building
was left abandoned. Though nowadays, all that remains of the once rich,
and magnificent La Plata (Liberty Pole) is a few Cabins, and mining structures
nestled along the Piny Hills, south of Avon and Logan. |
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