Tucker, Utah
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Tucker is a ghost town located in Utah County, Utah, 7 miles (11 km) below Soldier Summit on U.S. Route 6 through Spanish Fork Canyon. Once an important loading point and construction camp on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Tucker is almost completely gone. A rest stop covers most of the former townsite.
[edit] History
Tucker started as a simple railroad junction. When a station was built here to house the helper engines used to push freight trains over Soldier Summit,[1] it quickly grew into a town with a population of 500, called Clear Creek.[2] The town had a boarding house, company store, and saloon,[1] and dozens of hastily-constructed houses filled the small valley. At some point its name was changed to Tucker, for a certain James Tucker.[2]
Tucker came to an end around 1915, when the railroad filled in much of the location to lift the road bed far above the valley floor. All the buildings are gone, and even most of the old railroad grade is covered by the fill.[2] There is no sign that the roadside rest stop sits on top of a ghost town.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Thompson, George A. (November 1982). Some Dreams Die: Utah's Ghost Towns and Lost Treasures. Salt Lake City, Utah: Dream Garden Press, p.176. ISBN 0-942688-01-5.
- ^ a b c Carr, Stephen L. [June 1972] (1986). The Historical Guide to Utah Ghost Towns, 3rd edition, Salt Lake City: Western Epics, p.70. ISBN 0-914740-30-X.
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