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Winter Quarters is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. Coal was discovered in the area in 1875, and later that year, the Pleasant Valley Coal Company began coal mining operations. A group of coal miners was delayed during an early winter storm in 1877, which led to the town's name of Winter Quarters. [2]
The Scofield Mine disaster was a mining explosion that occurred at the Winter Quarters coal mine on May 1, 1900. The mine was located at 39°42′57″N 111°11′17″W / 39.71583°N 111.18806°W / 39.71583; -111.18806 near the town of Scofield ,
The emigrants were located on both sides of the river, but their settlement at Winter Quarters on the west side was the largest. There they built 700 dwellings where an estimated 3,500 Latter-day Saints spent the winter of 1846–47; many would also reside there during the winter of 1847–48.
Not long after the delay in their travels, Hark Lay Wales and the company finally arrived in Winter Quarters. Hark Lay Wales and other slaves like Oscar Crosby left Winter Quarters and were part of the first company to arrive in Utah. [4] Hark Lay Wales arrived in Utah on July 22, 1847.
During the winter of 1846–1847, Latter-day Saint leaders in Winter Quarters and Iowa laid plans for the migration of the large number of Saints, their equipment, and their livestock. It was here that Young first met Thomas L. Kane , a non-Mormon from Philadelphia with deep personal connections to the administration of U.S. president James K ...
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Scofield is a town in Carbon County, Utah, United States.The population was 26 at the 2020 census. [4] Scofield's name is frequently applied to the 1900 mine disaster in the Pleasant Valley Coal Company's Winter Quarters mine.
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