![]() Melissa ran the store, hotel and post office at Kimball Junction in Summit County, Utah for many years until they sold it c.1868 to Mr. ![]() Melissa Burton Coray Kimball (1828-1903) and her seven children were the resident proprietors of the Kimball Hotel. He married his second wife on December 24, 1851, the widow of William Coray. William lived most of the time in Salt Lake City with his first wife Mary Davenport. After his return, around 1860 or 1862 William built the Kimball Hotel and Overland Stage Stop in Parley’s Park, a place well known for many years to travelers on the “Old Overland Pony Express” mail route, and eventually the route was part of the coast to coast Lincoln Highway. Young called him to serve a mission for the Mormon Church to England 1854-1857. He started a stagecoach business in 1854, vying with Brigham Young’s X-Y Express for the federal mail contracts. William Henry Kimball – another early settler in Parley’s Park. Still standing, now known as the Bitner Ranch at 630 W. The Kimball Ranch Hotel served as a station for the Pony Express, Overland Stage, Ben Halladay’s line and the Wells Fargo Express. To help in this business Samuel brought with him his two married daughters and families Parmelia (Meltiar) Hatch and Betsey (Jesse) Johnstun, as well as his oldest son, Ephraim Stockwell Snyder, who was 20 years old. Many of the first homes in Salt Lake City were built from lumber from “Snyder’s Mill”. The waters from White Pine, Red Pine, and Willow Creek were directed into a reservoir – the water then used to turn the wheel and operate the first grist mill,saw mill, and turning and lathing machines in Summit County and one of the first in Utah.The mountains were heavily forested with pines and quaking aspens. This being in the Southwest section of Parley’s Park, where the streams come down from the high mountains, and the land starts to level out toward the flat meadows. Samuel Stockwell Snyder – (1808-1866) In 1850, when the road was completed up “Big Kanyon”, Sam Snyder chose a location for his home on Spring Creek. After this intersection became a station for the Overland Stage it became known as Snyders’ Station, then years later Snyderville, named for George Gideon Snyder (1819-1887 a probate judge who named Park City), the younger brother of Samuel.Ĭondas sheepherder cabin off White Pine Canyon Road and Highway 224 Kimball (another Mormon apostle), and Samuel Comstock Snyder, who developed mine holdings, a sawmill, and a grist mill in the area now developed as Snyder’s’ Mill and Silver Springs. Parley was the Mormon apostle Parley Parker Pratt. ![]() Snderville in Summit County, Utah is four miles northwest of Park City (originally known as Parley’s Park City. We are so fortunate to live in this diverse and inspiring mountain meadow, governed by the unity of nature herself.” - Text paraphrased from the original Silver Springs sales brochure, 1979 Vern & Virginia Hardman. People work better where they live better. They have embraced the meadows, and the streams, and the peaks, and share in its clean, ever-changing, breath-taking splendor. This new century has brought new pioneers who saw a different view of this land. Then provided us with a new wealth, the rich resource of white powder that is bountifully harvested at Silver Lake, Treasure Mountain, ParkWest, and around each of our homes. Our valley recovered with an ever-giving and bountiful display of beauty. ![]() For within these rock peaks and green valleys hid a different treasure, a rich and robust landscape of clean, spacious beauty for a new century’s frontier.This wondrous place is Parley’s Park, a broad valley backed by high, glaciated peaks, where spring run-off has layered it with deep, dark earth and where along its weaving streams, native cottonwood and willow, grow white aspen and oak. Yet so uncaring they cut and dug with little foresight, they used the land, fashioning empires of gold and silver. To them it was a limitless land, full of riches and treasure. “Undaunted and eager, the last century’s pioneers rushed into this wild frontier. 1900’s – Parley’s Park, Snyderville Basin now known as Moose Valley Moose Valley aka Snyderville Basin Driving TourĬ. ![]()
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