Black Rock Historic Site

Black Rock Historic Site. . (Caption top left) , Hober C. Kimball home at Black Rock Beach. ca. 1880s. , Photo courtesy the Utah State Historical Society, (Caption top center) , Black Rock Beach, ca. 1940s , Photo courtesy of the Utah State Historical Society, A Salty Swim? , Black Rock was home to a resort for bathing, boating, and other recreational pursuits from the 1860s to the 1960s, making it one of the longest operating Great Salt Lake resorts. The first documented recreational swim was by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in July of 1847. Have you swam in the lake?, A Place of Inspiration. , Black Rock has served as a subject of many significant.paintings, etchings, and drawings since European Americans first witnessed the landform. It was even joked, that to be considered a "Utah Landscape Painter" you had to have painted the Black Rock at least once. When the State of Utah started the State's art collection in the 1890s, the first piece acquired was James Taylor Harwood's oil painting of Black Rock (right) and is hanging in the Governor's Mansion., A Natural Icon , Tens of thousands of years ago, a piece of the Oquirrh Mountains rolled off and into the waters of old Lake Bonneville. As the lake drained, Black Rock emerged from the depths to become a landmark for humans for the next 13,000 years. This area is within the ancestral homelands of the Goshute, Shoshone, and Ute Tribes, and they have connection to this land today., (caption right center) , Black Rock Beach, James Taylor Harwood, 1898. , Image courtesy of the Utah Division of Arts and Museums, State of Utah's Alice Merrill Horne Collection.