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Photo credits
Every photograph on this site, with the person or archive it comes from.
Ute riders crossing a river
Courtesy photo
A pioneer wagon train
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The Q-BOP furnace at Geneva Steel in 1991, part of the $70 million modernization that replaced the old open hearths.
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Geneva Steel in 1998, the year the mill began its final round of layoffs.
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Geneva Steel in 1999, the year the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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A Geneva Steel blast furnace and smoke stacks in the 1990s, mirrored in a pond on the plant grounds.
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The Vineyard town flag, the United States flag and the Utah state flag near the town hall and park, looking toward Mount Timpanogos in 2000.
Courtesy photo
The certificate of incorporation for the Town of Vineyard, issued by the Utah Lieutenant Governor in May 1989.
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Vineyard's first town government in 1989: Mayor J Rulon Gammon with council members Grace Holdaway, Robert Holdaway, Stan Morris and Morris Clegg.
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The Vineyard Town Hall in 1998, a former cabinet shop the young town bought and remodeled.
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The Vineyard historical quilt, made in 1999 for the centennial of the Vineyard Ward, with blocks showing the community's landmarks.
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Vineyard's parade float in the Fourth of July Freedom Festival Parade in Provo, 1997.
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Parachuters land at the Vineyard Summer Celebration in 1998, a town tradition since 1989.
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Flagpoles at sunrise at the Vineyard town center, 1998.
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Looking across Vineyard toward Mount Timpanogos, 1997.
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The weathered LeCheminant barn in Vineyard, 1998.
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Sunset over Utah Lake from Vineyard, 1998.
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Utah Lake from the Vineyard shore in March 2000.
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A car of the Salt Lake and Utah Railroad, the Orem Line interurban that ran through Vineyard from 1914, around the 1920s.
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Mount Timpanogos under snow, seen from the Vineyard fields around 1997.
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A Vineyard farm looking north toward the Geneva Steel plant in the 1940s, shocks of grain in the foreground and the mill on the horizon.
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A sheet of World War II ration coupons kept by a Vineyard family, 1940s.
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A World War II ration book cover, War Ration Book No. 3, issued in Utah County in the 1940s.
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Threshing grain on a Vineyard farm in 1948, the straw piled high beside the machine.
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An old threshing machine of the kind Vineyard farmers shared from farm to farm at harvest.
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Drilling grain with a team of horses on a Vineyard farm, around the 1940s.
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The Cherry Hill milk truck, which hauled milk from Vineyard dairies, in 1945.
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Hauling sugar beets by horse and wagon in Vineyard, 1948.
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The Union Dairy Company, the first milkhouse in Vineyard, built in 1890, with milk cans ready for the train.
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The El Grande machine used to dig farm drains in Vineyard from the 1920s to the 1950s, turning swampy ground into cropland.
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Building the Geneva Road through Vineyard in 1914.
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A Gammon sugar beet field around 1920, rows stretching toward the lake.
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Loading the milk train at Vineyard, around the 1900s.
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Hauling ice from Utah Lake on a bobsleigh, around the 1900s. Ice cut from the lake kept milk cold through summer.
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The Andreasen Store and its miniature golf course, around the 1930s.
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The Vineyard Red & White Store, built and owned by Hyrum Larsen, around 1925.
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The original Bunker feed mill, around 1935.
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Bunkers Feed Center around the 1940s, with cars lined up out front.
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A flock of turkeys on a Vineyard turkey ranch, around the 1940s.
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The Morrill turkey farm in Vineyard in 1956, seen from the air, its long pens running toward the fields.
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The Andreasen Store, around the 1910s, its storefront signs advertising groceries, dry goods and notions.
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Cutting ice on Utah Lake, around the 1900s.
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Bunkers Feed around the 1950s.
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A swing under the trees at the Geneva Resort, around the 1920s.
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A stock certificate of the Vineyard Amusement Company, which owned the Geneva Resort.
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The Vineyard Town Council at the town park ribbon cutting ceremony in 1992.
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The Geneva Resort pools around the 1920s, fed by artesian water.
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The Vineyard band marching in 1939.
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The Vineyard School, a two-story building finished in 1912.
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The Little Blue Schoolhouse, Vineyard's first school, built in 1883, as it looked around the 1890s.
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Students in front of the red brick Vineyard District School, around the 1900s.
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School children playing on the giant stride swings in Vineyard, around the 1920s.
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The Vineyard Band around 1938 under band teacher Earl Beck.
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The original Town of Vineyard emblem, used by the town after its incorporation in 1989.
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J Rulon Gammon, dairyman and Vineyard's first mayor, who led the town from its incorporation in 1989.
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Lithograph after a drawing by A. Fay of Ute women and children held as prisoners under the common platform inside Fort Utah after the 1850 fighting on the Provo River, from Howard Stansbury's survey report.
A. Fay, lithograph by Ackerman; Stansbury report via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Lithograph of Old Elk and his wife, identified on the plate as Utah Indians, from Howard Stansbury's 1852 report on the Great Salt Lake valley. Old Elk was a Ute leader in Utah Valley at the time of the 1850 fighting near Fort Utah.
A. Fay, lithograph by Ackerman; Stansbury report, Brigham Young University copy via Internet Archive, Public domain
Payson High School in 2016, the Bomont High of Footloose, before the old building came down.
An Errant Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0
Center Street at Mill Road, Vineyard, June 2016
An Errant Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Vineyard Connector bridge over the rail line, 2015
An Errant Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Vineyard station, August 2022
An Errant Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A FrontRunner train passes the future Vineyard station site, 2016
An Errant Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
North along the tracks from the future station, 2015
An Errant Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Snow on the future station site, 2016
An Errant Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
FrontRunner tracks under Geneva Road, 2016
An Errant Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Vineyard Elementary School, 2016
An Errant Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Looking south from the Vineyard station site, 2015
An Errant Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The old Geneva land where the new downtown now rises, 2015
An Errant Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Grading for the mill, Geneva, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
Brick kilns near the new mill, Geneva, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
A truck carrying concrete mixers at the new mill, Geneva, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
Building on the mill site, Geneva, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
Servicing a floodlight for night work at Geneva, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
The water intake tunnel, Geneva, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
Masonry for a battery of coke ovens, Geneva, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
Digging for the open hearth furnaces by floodlight, Geneva, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
The open-hearth stacks as they were built, Geneva, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
Driving piles for the mill's foundations, Geneva, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
Steel and concrete go into place at Geneva, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
Steel mill under construction, Geneva, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
Two workmen at the mill under construction, Geneva, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
The cement plant that built the mill, Geneva, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
A stack going up at Geneva, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
Furnaces rising at Geneva, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
The stacks going up at Geneva, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
Geneva under construction below Mount Timpanogos, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
Digging the foundations at Geneva, 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
Tapping a heat of iron at Ironton, near Provo, 1942 (a still from the era, not the film)
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress
Open-hearth furnaces and stacks under construction at Geneva, November 1942
Andreas Feininger, Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons
Two draglines dig foundations for the open hearth furnaces at the Geneva steel plant site in November 1942, with the snowy Wasatch Range behind them.
Andreas Feininger; Library of Congress, Public domain
A dragline operator at work, seen from inside his cab, as crews dug day and night for the open hearth furnaces of the new Geneva steel mill in 1942.
Andreas Feininger; Library of Congress, Public domain
A dragline bucket swings over a waiting dump truck during excavation for the open hearth furnaces at Geneva, November 1942.
Andreas Feininger; Library of Congress, Public domain
Workers stand atop the rising steel shells of the Geneva blast furnaces as they take form in November 1942.
Andreas Feininger; Library of Congress, Public domain
Stacks of corrugated metal casings for concrete foundation piles wait at the Geneva steel plant site in 1942, below the Wasatch Range.
Andreas Feininger; Library of Congress, Public domain
A concrete stack for the open hearth furnaces rises at the Geneva steel plant in November 1942, photographed from below.
Andreas Feininger; Library of Congress, Public domain
Floodlights light the footings for the open hearth furnaces at night, as construction of the Geneva steel plant ran around the clock in 1942.
Andreas Feininger; Library of Congress, Public domain
A surveyor runs lines for the water intake tunnel that would serve the new Geneva steel mill, November 1942.
Andreas Feininger; Library of Congress, Public domain
A crew spreads and finishes fresh concrete as the Geneva steel mill takes form in November 1942.
Andreas Feininger; Library of Congress, Public domain
A bulldozer works a pile of gravel used to make concrete for the Geneva steel plant, 1942.
Andreas Feininger; Library of Congress, Public domain
Portrait of a bulldozer operator who helped build the Geneva steel mill, November 1942.
Andreas Feininger; Library of Congress, Public domain
A construction worker in goggles at the Geneva steel plant site, identified in the original caption as a bulldozer operator, November 1942.
Andreas Feininger; Library of Congress, Public domain
An electric arc welder at work during construction of the Geneva steel mill, November 1942.
Andreas Feininger; Library of Congress, Public domain
A steam locomotive outside the blast furnace of the Columbia Steel Company plant at Ironton, between Provo and Springville, in October 1942.
Andreas Feininger; Library of Congress, Public domain
Molten iron pours from the blast furnace at Columbia Steel Company's Ironton plant near Springville, October 1942.
Andreas Feininger; Library of Congress, Public domain
Utah valley farms, 1940
Arthur Rothstein, Library of Congress
Utah valley farms, 1940
Arthur Rothstein, Library of Congress
Utah valley farms, 1940
Arthur Rothstein, Library of Congress
A bull trout. Its bones turn up in the last layers of Lake Bonneville, though it no longer lives anywhere in the basin.
Bart Gamett, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain
The UVU letters on campus, 2018
Ben P L, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr
"Father Escalante Discovers Utah Lake, 1776", mural in the Utah State Capitol dome, 1934
Beneathtimp, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Emerald Lake below the Timpanogos glacier, the lake Utahna passes in some tellings of the legend, on the trail to the summit.
Brad Pack, CC BY 2.0
The Lehi Roller Mills, where Kevin Bacon's character worked in Footloose.
brewbooks, CC BY-SA 2.0
Fremont clay figurines found in Range Creek, Utah, now at the Prehistoric Museum in Price. Twenty clay figurines were also found at the Hinckley Mounds by Utah Lake between 1956 and 1960.
Brian Lee, CC BY-SA 3.0
Geneva at sunrise under U.S. Steel, 1972
Bruce McAllister, National Archives (DOCUMERICA)
The Megaplex at Geneva, with Larry H. Miller's name on the sign
Buglord, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fishing at the outlet of Utah Lake, about 1890
BYU Special Collections
Provo Falls in Provo Canyon, photographed by C. R. Savage around 1888. The Provo River runs from this canyon to Utah Lake.
C. R. Savage, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University, Public domain
Utah Lake State Park, near Provo, 2022
Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress
Utah Lake and the Wasatch Range, 2022
Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress
Ducks on the beach across from sailboats moored in the harbor at Utah Lake State Park in Provo, with the Wasatch Range behind.
Carol M. Highsmith; Library of Congress, Public domain
Columbian mammoths, the kind that grazed the shores of Lake Bonneville, painted by Charles R. Knight.
Charles R. Knight, Public domain
Gammon Park
City of Vineyard
Penny Springs Park
City of Vineyard
The lakeshore at Sunset Beach Park
City of Vineyard
Utah Lake off Vineyard Beach
City of Vineyard
Vineyard Grove Park
City of Vineyard
Sunset on the Vineyard lakeshore
City of Vineyard
Crowds at the Geneva Resort in the 1920s, beneath the arches of the resort buildings.
Courtesy of BYU Archives
The Geneva Resort flume slide around the 1920s, which sent riders down a wet chute into the water.
Courtesy of BYU Archives
Old Bruin, the Geneva Resort's bear, around the 1920s.
Courtesy of BYU Archives
Boat tours at the Geneva Resort on Utah Lake, around the 1920s.
Courtesy of BYU Archives
The Geneva Hotel at the Geneva Resort, around the 1920s.
Courtesy of BYU Archives
A haystack at the Blake barn in Vineyard, around the 1920s.
Courtesy of George Blake
The Vineyard Ward sugar beet harvest in 1940, with men, tractors and wagons gathered at the beet pile.
Courtesy of George Blake
J Rulon Gammon with the milking machines in his dairy barn, 1983.
Courtesy of Mark A. Philbrick
The Gammon dairy farm in 1983.
Courtesy of Mark A. Philbrick
The Gammon farm in 1927, its barns and fields running toward Utah Lake.
Courtesy of Snyder Studio, American Fork, Utah
The Geneva Steel plant seen looking east from Utah Lake in the 1960s, its stacks reflected in the water below the Wasatch Range.
Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society
An aerial view of Geneva Steel in the 1960s, the mill spread across the old Vineyard farmland between Utah Lake and the snowy Wasatch.
Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society
Molten steel pours down the slag pile at Geneva, around the 1960s, lighting up the night.
Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society
Utah Lake looking north toward the Geneva Resort, around the 1930s.
Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society
The Geneva Resort on the Vineyard shore of Utah Lake, around the 1940s.
Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society
Culex tarsalis, a marsh mosquito of the West that can carry West Nile virus.
Davefoc, CC BY-SA 4.0
The June sucker as drawn for David Starr Jordan's survey of the fishes of North America in the late 1800s.
David Starr Jordan, Fish and Marine Invertebrate Biology collection, Public domain
A Provo farm's produce on display, 1909
Ellis Johnson; LDS Church Archives
Coronado Sets Out to the North, painted by Frederic Remington in the 1890s. Coronado's expedition of 1540 heard of a rich lake country far to the north.
Frederic Remington, Public domain
Sketch of the south half of the Rock Canyon delta at Provo, a Lake Bonneville delta at the mouth of Rock Canyon cut by fault scarps along the foot of the Wasatch, from Gilbert's Lake Bonneville (Fig. 43).
G. K. Gilbert, Lake Bonneville (USGS Monograph 1, 1890); Internet Archive, Public domain
The ancient deltas of the Logan River, built into Lake Bonneville at the mouth of Logan Canyon, as seen from the Logan Temple, a panorama from Gilbert's Lake Bonneville (Plate XXVII).
G. K. Gilbert, Lake Bonneville (USGS Monograph 1, 1890); Internet Archive, Public domain
Fault scarp crossing an alluvial cone near Salt Lake City, with the benches of Lake Bonneville on the mountainside above, drawn for Gilbert's Lake Bonneville (Plate XLIV).
G. K. Gilbert, Lake Bonneville (USGS Monograph 1, 1890); Internet Archive, Public domain
Gilbert's Fig. 46, a sketch of old Lake Bonneville shore lines and a fault scarp at the base of the Wasatch Range near Farmington in Davis County, from his 1890 monograph Lake Bonneville.
G. K. Gilbert, Lake Bonneville (USGS Monograph 1, 1890); Internet Archive, Public domain
Gilbert's map of Lake Bonneville with contour lines showing how the Bonneville shoreline has been warped upward since the lake dried, highest near the center of the old lake (Plate XLVI).
G. K. Gilbert, Lake Bonneville (USGS Monograph 1, 1890); Internet Archive, Public domain
Gilbert's map of the deformation of the Provo shoreline, the lower Lake Bonneville shore that forms the benches of Utah Valley, with contours of later uplift (Plate XLVII).
G. K. Gilbert, Lake Bonneville (USGS Monograph 1, 1890); Internet Archive, Public domain
Map of Lake Bonneville showing the vertical interval between the Bonneville and Provo shorelines at points around the old lake, from Gilbert's 1890 monograph (Plate XLVIII).
G. K. Gilbert, Lake Bonneville (USGS Monograph 1, 1890); Internet Archive, Public domain
Gilbert's map of the Bonneville basin marking the mountain districts, mostly in the Wasatch and Uinta ranges, that held glaciers while the lake was high (Plate XLIX).
G. K. Gilbert, Lake Bonneville (USGS Monograph 1, 1890); Internet Archive, Public domain
Gilbert's theoretic curves of post Bonneville deformation, drawn as rings over the outline of the old lake to model how the land rose as the water's weight was removed (Plate L).
G. K. Gilbert, Lake Bonneville (USGS Monograph 1, 1890); Internet Archive, Public domain
Farmers load beet pulp for livestock feed at the Springville sugar factory
George Edward Anderson; BYU Special Collections
Gilbert's map of the mouths of Little and Dry Cottonwood canyons in the Salt Lake Valley, showing where glacial moraines met the Lake Bonneville shore and where faults cross them (Plate XLII).
Gilbert Thompson and G. K. Gilbert; G. K. Gilbert, Lake Bonneville (USGS Monograph 1, 1890); Internet Archive, Public domain
Jonah cast up by the great fish, an engraving by Gustave Doré, 1866. William S. Robinson heard the Utah Lake fish story as a boy and thought of Jonah.
Gustave Doré, Public domain
Chicomoztoc, the Place of Seven Caves, from the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca, a Nahua manuscript of the 1500s. The peoples of Mexico said their ancestors came from seven caves near a great lake in the north.
Historia Tolteca Chichimeca, Public domain
Great Salt Lake City in 1850, drawn for Howard Stansbury's survey
Howard Stansbury survey, Library of Congress
Map of the Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake valleys from Captain Howard Stansbury's 1849 and 1850 survey, drawn by Lieutenant John W. Gunnison and Charles Preuss. Utah Lake, Provo and the Timpanogos River appear at lower right.
Howard Stansbury, John W. Gunnison and Charles Preuss; Library of Congress, Public domain
An illustration of the Utah Lake Monster surfacing below the Wasatch, drawn from the way witnesses described it. No photograph of the creature exists.
Illustration, Vineyard History
An illustration in the style of an old tintype: a long shape moving across Utah Lake, the way Bishop Price described what he saw from the west shore in 1871.
Illustration, Vineyard History
An illustration of the creature the Provo boys described in 1880, with a long head and a wide mouth like an alligator's.
Illustration, Vineyard History
An illustration of the giant fish of Utah Lake from the story told to William S. Robinson. No one knows what the storyteller pictured.
Illustration, Vineyard History
An illustration of the moment in the story when the great fish caught up with the four swimmers.
Illustration, Vineyard History
An illustration of the story's ending: the four swimmers free of the fish, one still holding the knife.
Illustration, Vineyard History
An illustration of a Water Baby rising in a spring at night, drawn from the way Ute storytellers described them: long black hair, half hidden in the reeds.
Illustration, Vineyard History
An illustration of what John Duncan, Red Sunrise, said he saw as a boy: Water Babies drying their long hair on a flat rock in the Provo River.
Illustration, Vineyard History
An illustration of the end of Red Sunrise's story: the Water Babies gone under, and the river rising after the two boys.
Illustration, Vineyard History
Captain J. H. Simpson's preliminary map of the routes his Army topographical party scouted and opened across the Territory of Utah in 1858, centered on Utah Lake and the Great Salt Lake.
J. H. Simpson, U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers; Library of Congress, Public domain
Map of Utah Territory from John Wesley Powell's survey, showing irrigable land in green, with the farmland around Utah Lake marked, compiled by Charles Mahon and others for the Commissioner of Public Lands.
J. W. Powell, U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region; Library of Congress, Public domain
Downtown Vineyard
Jacob Wood
Vineyard homes under Mount Timpanogos
Jacob Wood
Neighborhoods and the lakeshore trail beside Utah Lake
Jacob Wood
The Vineyard lakeshore trail at sunset
Jacob Wood
The ladle roundabout by the Megaplex
Jacob Wood
The Megaplex at Geneva from above
Jacob Wood
A sea serpent as described by the missionary Hans Egede off Greenland in 1734, in a later engraving. Drawings like this shaped what settlers expected a lake monster to look like.
James Hope Stewart and William Home Lizars, engraving, Public domain
Fremont petroglyphs at Capitol Reef National Park. The Fremont people who farmed beside Utah Lake carved figures in this same style across Utah.
James St. John, CC BY 2.0
Bighorn sheep, deer and other animals pecked into rock by Fremont people, Fremont Indian State Park, Utah. Bighorn sheep, snakes and hunters are also carved on the boulders west of Utah Lake.
James St. John, CC BY 2.0
A Fremont rock art panel with circles and figures, Fremont Indian State Park, Utah. Fremont people carved panels like this between about 400 and 1350 A.D.
James St. John, CC BY 2.0
Fremont lizard petroglyphs at Dinosaur National Monument in eastern Utah.
James St. John, CC BY 2.0
Map of John C. Frémont's 1842 to 1844 expeditions, drawn by Charles Preuss. Frémont's 1844 return route passes Utah Lake, shown south of the Great Salt Lake. This copy carries handwritten notes by George Gibbs adding Jedediah Smith's routes.
John C. Frémont and Charles Preuss, annotated by George Gibbs; World Digital Library, Library of Congress, Public domain
A hand colored plate of a wagon party at the mouth of the Timpanogos River canyon, the old name for the Provo River where it leaves the Wasatch Range for Utah Valley, from Captain J. H. Simpson's 1859 survey.
John J. Young from sketches by H. V. A. von Beckh; National Archives, Public domain
Lithograph after a sketch by John J. Young, 1859, of a tall waterfall in the Timpanogos River canyon, today Provo Canyon, with a wagon train passing below. Plate XI of Captain J. H. Simpson's 1859 Utah report.
John J. Young; National Archives via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
An elk skin tent of the Uinta Utes, 1874
John K. Hillers, Library of Congress
A Ute girl on horseback, 1874, by John K. Hillers
John K. Hillers, Library of Congress
The home of Ta-vah-puts, a chief of the Uinta Utes, 1874
John K. Hillers, Library of Congress
Uinta Ute women at a spring, photographed by John K. Hillers for the Powell survey in the early 1870s. Springs like this were where the Water Babies were said to call.
John K. Hillers, Powell survey, Public domain
"Ute warrior", photographed by John K. Hillers, 1874
John K. Hillers, Wikimedia Commons
Ta vah puts, named on the card as chief of the Uinta Utes, photographed by John K. Hillers for the Powell survey of the Colorado River country. Stereograph card.
John K. Hillers; Library of Congress, Public domain
An te ro, named on the card as war chief of the Uinta Utes, photographed by John K. Hillers for the Powell survey. Stereograph card.
John K. Hillers; Library of Congress, Public domain
Tau ruv, wife of Won ro an, in full dress, from John K. Hillers's Powell survey series on the Uinta Utes of the Uinta Valley, Utah. Stereograph card.
John K. Hillers; Library of Congress, Public domain
Sai ar and his family, Uinta Utes, seated outdoors in a photograph by John K. Hillers for the Powell survey. Stereograph card.
John K. Hillers; Library of Congress, Public domain
A Uinta Ute man titled The Messenger, noted on the back of the card as 'The Runner', photographed by John K. Hillers for the Powell survey. Stereograph card.
John K. Hillers; Library of Congress, Public domain
Pah ri ats in summer costume, from John K. Hillers's Powell survey series on the Uinta Utes of the Uinta Valley, Utah. Stereograph card.
John K. Hillers; Library of Congress, Public domain
Two Uinta Utes titled Indians Counting, from John K. Hillers's Powell survey series made in the Uinta Valley, Utah. Stereograph card.
John K. Hillers; Library of Congress, Public domain
A Uinta Ute mother with her baby in a cradleboard, seated on a hide beneath a drying rack, from John K. Hillers's Powell survey series made in the Uinta Valley, Utah. Stereograph card titled Babe in Cradle.
John K. Hillers; Library of Congress, Public domain
A Uinta Ute camp with a lodge among brush and a lookout figure in a tree, titled The Watch Tower, from John K. Hillers's Powell survey series. Stereograph card.
John K. Hillers; Library of Congress, Public domain
Two young Uinta Utes seated on the ground under a tree, titled Boy and Girl, from John K. Hillers's Powell survey series. Stereograph card.
John K. Hillers; Library of Congress, Public domain
Fort Utah on the Provo River, 1850
Library of Congress
Farms across Utah Valley: looking across Provo to Utah Lake, about 1909
Library of Congress
Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco's map from the expedition, 1778, with Laguna de los Timpanogos
Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons
A male chironomid midge, the harmless lake fly. Its larvae are among the most common animals on the bottom of Utah Lake.
Martin Cooper, CC BY 2.0
Relief map of Utah published at statehood in 1895 by Pierce and McMillen of Salt Lake City, showing county lines, towns and Utah Lake in the center of Utah County.
Mosiah Hall and Don Maguire; Library of Congress, Public domain
Lake Side Power Plant on part of the former Geneva Steel site, 2008
Mscalora, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Utah Lake photographed from the space shuttle Challenger on mission 51F, with the farms and towns of Utah Valley around it and scattered summer clouds.
NASA; National Archives, Public domain
Utah Lake and Provo among snow covered mountains, photographed from the space shuttle Atlantis on March 26, 1996.
NASA; National Archives, Public domain
The Vineyard Town Office, 2009
Ntsimp, public domain
Liberty ships like this were built from steel plate, including Geneva's.
Office of War Information, National Archives
War production posters on a bulletin board for employees of the Columbia Steel Company in Utah County, urging more and better output during World War II.
Office of War Information; Library of Congress, Public domain
A sugar beet harvest in Utah County, about 1900
Photo by George Edward Anderson; BYU Special Collections
A fire red sky over Utah Lake, August 2023
Photo by Jacob Wood
The sun sets behind the Lake Mountains, August 2023
Photo by Jacob Wood
Dusk on Utah Lake, November 2023
Photo by Jacob Wood
Reeds at the water's edge, Utah Lake, July 2023
Photo by Jacob Wood
Sunset over Utah Lake from Vineyard, July 2023
Photo by Jacob Wood
Rembrandt Peale's 1801 sketch of a mastodon skeleton dug up in New York. The tusked skull found on the Utah Lake shore in 1870 was most likely from an animal like this.
Rembrandt Peale, Public domain
A U.S. Steel sign left by the Geneva land, 2010
Rockclaw1030, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Threshing barley, Utah, 1940
Russell Lee, Library of Congress
Utah valley farms, 1941
Russell Lee, Library of Congress
Utah valley farms, 1940
Russell Lee, Library of Congress
Utah valley farms, 1941
Russell Lee, Library of Congress
Utah valley farms, 1940
Russell Lee, Library of Congress
Utah valley farms, 1941
Russell Lee, Library of Congress
Dairy cows on a Utah valley farm, 1941
Russell Lee, Library of Congress
Utah valley farms, 1941
Russell Lee, Library of Congress
A Utah farm family, 1940
Russell Lee, Library of Congress
A Utah farm boy at work, 1940
Russell Lee, Library of Congress
A dryland farm in the mountains, Cache County, 1940
Russell Lee, Library of Congress
Haystacks on a farm in Cornish, Utah, 1940
Russell Lee, Library of Congress
Utah valley farms, 1940
Russell Lee, Library of Congress
Spring pasture below the Uinta Mountains, Heber, 1941
Russell Lee, Library of Congress
A field of sugar beets in front of the sugar beet processing plant at Garland, Box Elder County, Utah.
Russell Lee; Farm Security Administration, Library of Congress, Public domain
A truck of sugar beets being tipped and unloaded at the sugar beet plant in Lewiston, Cache County, Utah.
Russell Lee; Farm Security Administration, Library of Congress, Public domain
The Huntington Mammoth, a Columbian mammoth found high in Utah's Wasatch Plateau in 1988, on display at the prehistoric museum in Price.
S. Clyde, National Archives, Public domain
Fort Utah, the first settlement in Provo, 1849, as painted by Samuel Hans Jepperson
Samuel Hans Jepperson, BYU Library, via Wikimedia Commons
Spanish Fork Indian Farm, early 1860s
Special Collections, University of Utah
The First Presbyterian Church in American Fork, used for the church scenes in Footloose.
Tricia Simpson, CC BY-SA 3.0
The Robert E. Peary on launching day, Richmond, California, 1942
U.S. Maritime Commission, Library of Congress
Launching day of the Liberty ship Robert E. Peary, Richmond, California, November 12, 1942
U.S. Maritime Commission, Library of Congress
The completed Spanish Fork diversion structure and gatekeeper's house in Spanish Fork Canyon, part of the Strawberry Valley Project that brought water to farms in southern Utah County.
U.S. Reclamation Service photograph; Historic American Engineering Record, Library of Congress, Public domain
Workers building the Springville and Mapleton lateral siphon across the Spanish Fork River, Strawberry Valley Project, Utah County.
U.S. Reclamation Service photograph; Historic American Engineering Record, Library of Congress, Public domain
The completed siphon of the Springville and Mapleton lateral crossing the Spanish Fork River on concrete piers.
U.S. Reclamation Service photograph; Historic American Engineering Record, Library of Congress, Public domain
Building the High Line Canal siphon across Peteeneet Creek near Payson, Strawberry Valley Project.
U.S. Reclamation Service photograph; Historic American Engineering Record, Library of Congress, Public domain
Geneva Road, 2018
US 89, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr
The Geneva site from above, 2021
USDA NAIP
Vineyard and Provo from above, 2021
USDA NAIP
The June sucker, a fish found only in Utah Lake, which spawns up the Provo River beside Vineyard.
USFWS Fish and Aquatic Conservation, Public domain
Common carp, brought to Utah County in the 1880s, which went on to become the most common fish in Utah Lake.
USFWS Mountain Prairie, Public domain
American white pelicans feeding together at sunset at the Bear River refuge, Utah. Pelicans from the Great Salt Lake colony fish Utah Lake every summer.
USFWS Mountain Prairie, Public domain
American white pelicans in the shallows at the Bear River refuge in northern Utah.
USFWS Mountain Prairie, Public domain
A bald eagle in flight. Bald eagles winter along Utah Lake and the Provo River every year.
USFWS Mountain Prairie, Public domain
An American avocet with young on the mudflats, a summer sight along Utah Lake's shallow shore.
USFWS Mountain Prairie, Public domain
A muskrat swimming through a marsh. Generations of Vineyard boys trapped muskrats along the lakeshore and sold the pelts.
USFWS Mountain Prairie, Public domain
A swarm of non-biting midges over a wetland. Midges rise from Utah Lake by the billions every spring.
USFWS Mountain Prairie, Public domain
Western grebes at a floating nest among the reeds. Grebes have nested on Utah's lakes since the last days of Lake Bonneville.
USFWS Mountain-Prairie, Public domain
A beaver swimming among the reeds. Father Escalante counted beavers among the lake's creatures in 1776.
USFWS, Public domain
Geneva Works under Mount Timpanogos, 1940s
Utah State Historical Society
The Pleasant Grove Canning Company, 1919. In 1924 it took tomatoes from Vineyard farms.
Utah State Historical Society
Trains carried visitors to Utah Lake resorts like Geneva, just north of Vineyard.
Utah State Historical Society
UVU's main campus, 2004
uvuphotos, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr
A horse drawn wagon piled with hay in a field in the Jordan River valley, Utah, photographed by William Henry Jackson for the Detroit Publishing Company.
William Henry Jackson; Detroit Publishing Co., Library of Congress, Public domain
A cutthroat trout leaps up a rapid. Utah Lake's own cutthroat, the Bonneville strain, once ran up the Provo River the same way.
Yellowstone National Park, Public domain
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