Before it was a ski resort or the location of a world-famous film festival, Park City, Utah, was a community of true western pioneers.
Its colorful history, including mining days and the Great Fire of 1898, comes to life at the Park City Museum, located in the heart of the town's Main Street. For a brief respite on a ski trip during a North American vacation, the museum provides an entertaining look at how millionaires and "muckers" (miners) made their way during Park City's early history.
According to Frommer's, one of the must-see sites at the museum is its facsimile of the original territorial jail where tiny cells were considered state of the art in the 1880s.
Also on display is a stagecoach similar to those that brought people and the mail to Park City. Visitors can be seated in a recreated railway car while they view a short film about frontier days.
Other features include an historic saloon, a two-story replica of a Mega Mine complete with a mill, Cornish pump, an aerial tramway and a "rock face" where visitors can try their hand at drilling for ore. In the skier subway theater, a presentation explains how Park City became the ski resort it is today.
Its colorful history, including mining days and the Great Fire of 1898, comes to life at the Park City Museum, located in the heart of the town's Main Street. For a brief respite on a ski trip during a North American vacation, the museum provides an entertaining look at how millionaires and "muckers" (miners) made their way during Park City's early history.
According to Frommer's, one of the must-see sites at the museum is its facsimile of the original territorial jail where tiny cells were considered state of the art in the 1880s.
Also on display is a stagecoach similar to those that brought people and the mail to Park City. Visitors can be seated in a recreated railway car while they view a short film about frontier days.
Other features include an historic saloon, a two-story replica of a Mega Mine complete with a mill, Cornish pump, an aerial tramway and a "rock face" where visitors can try their hand at drilling for ore. In the skier subway theater, a presentation explains how Park City became the ski resort it is today.
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