Ghost towns have always intrigued me, and especially when there's really nothing left of them, no evidence to prove they were even there other than a marker. Well, that's what you get if you are driving along Highway 257 between Milford and Delta, Utah. A blink and you miss it opportunity to a (unusually) very well detailed monument and plaque with excellent pictures to memorialize the location. A real contrast to the location which has not even a single ruin left standing to mark it.
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| Not much to see from the road, so it's easy to miss. |
Basically it was a little town born around 1881 and really grew in the 1890s because of the railroad boom. It grew to a decent size before immediately becoming ravaged in the 1930s due to the great depression. It also didn't help that the nearby lake that the town got it's name from also dried up completely because the state seized it for use on other farms, with nothing left in the lake to this day.
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| Jacob's pic of the monument there. |
The highway is a route I like to take on occasion and it's something I passed by many a time before finally checking it out. Ultimately, there's a lot of really neat history and documentation on the plaque that worh seeing if you are there. But, I would personally recommend the excellent write up for it on Jacob Barlow's site that's worth checking out, as he has much more info on it and more pics of the plaque and location.
Source and pics: https://jacobbarlow.com/2022/04/06/clear-lake-settlement/
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