Lark, Utah
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  Lark Location of Lark within the State of Utah  Lark Lark (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 40°31′30″N 112°05′47″W / 40.52500°N 112.09639°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Utah |
| County | Salt Lake |
| Founded | 1866 |
| Abandoned | 1978 |
| Named for | A prospector named Lark |
| Elevation | 5,541 ft (1,689 m) |
| GNIS feature ID | 1437617[1] |
Lark is a ghost town located 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Herriman in the Oquirrh Mountains of southwest Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. Lark was the location of several copper mines.
History
The discovery of
mining claims, but Dalton was later merged into Lark.[2] The town of Lark was officially established January 3, 1866.[3]
The town had enough Latter-day Saint residents by 1918 to be made a ward, but by 1923, the ward was reduced to a branch. It had 234 members in 1930.[4]
By 1929, Lark was a
Kennecott Copper bought the land, and on December 14, 1977, the company announced the termination of the 51 families' leases on the land where homes had been built, and gave them notices of eviction.[5][6] The company wanted the land to dump large quantities of overburden from nearby Bingham Canyon Mine. The population was 591, and Kennecott helped move people and some homes, even preparing a subdivision in nearby Copperton.[2] By 1978, Lark was dismantled.[3]
Lark's most famous citizen was
Vina Fay Wray, who portrayed Ann Darrow in the 1933 movie King Kong
. As a child Wray lived in two locations in Salt Lake City, and also in Lark, before her family moved to Los Angeles.
See also
References
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lark
- ^ ISBN 0-914740-30-X.
- ^ ISBN 0-87480-345-4.
- ^ Jenson, Andrew. Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1941) p.414.
- ^ "A Tiny Town's Last New Year", by Billy Bowles, Detroit Free Press, December 27, 1977, p.1 (includes photo of the town before demolition)
- ^ "Get Out of Town, Copper Firm Tells 591 Residents", by David Johnston, Los Angeles Times, December 18, 1977, p.I-1
External links
Media related to Lark, Utah at Wikimedia Commons
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