History Calendar

The June sucker, found only in Utah Lake, is moved from endangered to threatened.

At a council in Salt Lake City, Fort Utah's leader reports growing tension with the Utes.

Vineyard receives its first property tax check, about $129,000.

Geneva Steel files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Geneva Steel makes its first steel.

A judge approves the sale of the mill's core equipment to Qingdao Iron and Steel of China for $40 million.

Militia surround Old Elk's camp on the Provo River. Dozens of Timpanogos Utes die in the fighting that follows.

Three American airmen held in a German prison camp write to Geneva asking for jobs.

Captain John Dallin buys lakeshore land and opens the Geneva resort, named for his daughter.

By March 1942 the government has bought the farms for the mill.

Work begins on the Provo River Delta, a 260 acre restoration for the June sucker.

Settlers sent by Brigham Young found Fort Utah on the Provo River.

The Megaplex at Geneva opens on the old mill site with Utah County's first IMAX screen.

The official purchase date for the forty Vineyard farms taken for the steel plant.

Seven New Mexican traders led by Mauricio Arze and Lagos García set out for the lake of the Timpanogos.

Work begins on the Lake View sugar beet slicer, which pumps beet juice by pipeline to Lehi.

The first order of steel plate, 600 tons, ships to California shipyards building Liberty ships.

Construction begins on the Lake Side Power Plant, partly on the old mill site. It is finished in 2007.

The deadline for Vineyard families to clear their farms for the steel plant.

The Vineyard Ward holds a service honoring its members in uniform.

American Fork asks the county to widen the road north from Geneva for the mill's traffic.

Forty Vineyard residents attend the county hearing on their petition to become a town.

The Daily Herald headline: Newest town has only 148 people, but one big asset.

Eleven days after incorporation, the town gathers for a Vineyard Town Family Social.

A BYU study shows children's hospital admissions for asthma and bronchitis roughly doubled when Geneva was running.

The Utah County Commission approves Vineyard's incorporation.

Vineyard becomes a town. Dairyman Rulon Gammon is its first mayor.

The government sells the mill to U.S. Steel for $47.5 million.

The first Latter-day Saint wagon company reaches the Salt Lake Valley.

The largest documented algal bloom in Utah history closes Utah Lake.

Lake View families start their own Sunday School with Peter Madsen in charge. It soon becomes a ward.

Fathers Domínguez and Escalante and eight companions ride north out of Santa Fe.

The Vineyard Town Youth Council is organized.

Mayor Rulon Gammon announces the sale of his 94 acre dairy farm.

Vineyard dedicates its seven acre town park, paid for in cash.

The Vineyard FrontRunner station opens at 130 E. Market Street.

Utah County leaders meet to keep the mill from closing after the war.

At midnight, the Cannons reopen the mill as Geneva Steel Company. About 1,100 jobs are saved.

Geneva finishes its $70 million Q-BOP furnaces, cutting nitrogen oxide emissions by 95 percent.

The friars come out of Spanish Fork Canyon and see Utah Lake, the home of the Timpanogos Utes.

A young Vineyard man starts work on Geneva's open hearth furnaces.

Leaders celebrate the opening of the restored Provo River Delta.

Mapmaker Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco asks the King of Spain for a fort and a mission in Utah Valley. Neither is ever built.

A recruiter at the Provo employment office signs up farmers to work at the mill.

One month before Pearl Harbor, the government approves a steel mill on Vineyard farmland.

Deer Creek Dam is finished, steadying Vineyard's late summer water.

Most of Geneva's roughly 1,200 workers are laid off.

Anderson Geneva buys 1,750 acres of the Geneva site for $46.8 million.

Construction of the mill is complete, three years after it began.

The Salt Lake Tribune calls Vineyard the best kept secret in Utah.

The Vineyard ward Sunday School sends books to its young men in the army and navy.

Geneva's coke plant is completed, two years to the day after Pearl Harbor.

The paper reports carols playing from the mill's Number 2 gate, enjoyed by Vineyard ward.