Garfield, Utah: The Company Town That Was Moved Away One House at a Time
At its peak Garfield was a company town of 3,500 on the Great Salt Lake shore. In 1955 its owners condemned it — and moved all 394 houses to Magna, one at a time.
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Little Valley, Utah: The Industrial Boomtown Built to Cross a Lake
Little Valley was a company town engineered from nothing on the Great Salt Lake shore — a 1,300-person industrial camp that built the causeway carrying the Southern Pacific across the lake, then vanished within months of finishing the job in 1959.
