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Winter Quarters Mine, Scofield, Carbon County, UT

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Winter Quarters Mine, Scofield, Carbon County, UT

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Significance: The mine is significant as possibly the first coal mine in Utah. The May Day disaster of 1900 killed 200 miners and prompted the development of organized labor in Utah.
Survey number: HAER UT-44
Building/structure dates: 1894 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1928

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1900
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
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