The community was a
railroad settlement that started as a
Union Pacific camp during the final stages of construction of the
First transcontinental railroad. Located on the eastern slope of the
North Promontory Mountains and
Blue Creek Valley, southeast of
Snowville and west of
Tremonton on what is now
I-84, Blue Creek existed from the late 1860s until it was abandoned in the 1900s. The settlement was named for the
Blue Creek Spring, to the south. Initially a railroad camp, Blue Creek later became a
farming community with a few scattered homes and a
post office. In his
autobiography, 19th century pioneer
Alexander Toponce wrote, "In April and May of 1869,
Corinne and Blue Creek were pretty lively places. At the latter place was a big construction camp generally known as
Dead Fall and spoken of by some as
Hell’s Half Acre." ==See also==