Photo: Corinne: The Burg on the Bear

Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: June 17, 2013
Caption: Corinne: The Burg on the Bear
Additional Description: 1849 - Wagon road to Montana established by Captain Stansbury – the greatest natural highway in the world

1868 - October 8: quote (SLC Reporter) “Everybody and his wife is bound for Bear River”

1869 – February 18: 15 houses and a hundred and fifty inhabitants

1869 – March 15: Town site selected – J. E. House was apparently given authority to choose the site. J. O’Neil was his construction engineer.

Corinne had many names (Bear River, Conner, Burg on the Bear, Little Chicago of the West) before General J. A. Williamson named it after his talented daughter. The city plat was 3 miles square, blocks 264’ X 280’. The first eight blocks were divided into 22’ X 132’ lots with alleyways.

1869 – April 7: The railroad pulled its first engine across the new bridge

1869: Union Pacific completed the freight depot as the line was coming through Corinne. The ticket depot was built a short time later.

1869 – March 24: The town flourished with buildings and tents being erected. Montana Street drew most of the bidding where prices ranged from $5 to $1000; three hundred lots sold the first day, by mid-summer, sales reached $700,000 with 1500 inhabitants wanting a piece of the pie.

As the business came, Montana Street flourished; tent buildings and permanent buildings, drug stores, cigar shops, saddle harness shops, wagon shops, millenaries, tin shops, newspapers, banks, lawyers, a winery, saw mill, flour mill, brick yard, lumber yard, smelter, opera house, and a number of hotels and boarding houses. Along the tracks were two depots and a number of warehouses.
Submitted: April 11, 2014, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p270489
File Size: 3.400 Megabytes

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