Coon Peak from: Utah Place Names

COON PEAK (Salt Lake County). See Farnsworth Peak and Bacchus* below.

FARNSWORTH PEAK (Salt Lake County, Tooele County) is in the Oquirrh Mountains, four miles south of the Great Salt Lake. The peak was originally named Coon Peak honoring Abraham Coon, a pioneer. After television stations placed broadcasting equipment on the peak, the name was changed to honor Philo T. Farnsworth, a Utah native who invented television units. >S8,T2S,R3W,SLM; 9,054' (2,760m). Bibliography: Utah, A Guide to the State. Work Projects Administration. Comp. by Utah State Institute of Fine Arts, Salt Lake County Commission. New York: Hastings House, 1941. U.S. Board on Geographic Names, Decision List, No. 6803.

BACCHUS* (Salt Lake County) is a small community on U-111, on the eastern slopes of the Oquirrh Mountains. Bacchus was the former site of the small pioneer village of Coonville*. The name was changed from Coonville to Bacchus in 1915 when the Hercules Powder Company established an explosives manufacturing plant there. They named the community in honor of T. E. Bacchus, vice president of the company and superintendent of the Bacchus plant. With improved transportation, the workers moved to more favorable locations. Between 1930 and 1960 the town deteriorated into a ghost town. >S8,T2S,R2W,SLM; 4,910' (1,497m). Bibliography: Carr, Stephen L. The Historical Guide to Utah Ghost Towns. Salt Lake City: Western Epics, 1972. Our Pioneer Heritage, 17 vols. Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. (v17). Hulse, Irene. From Rags to Riches. A Resume of Area History from the Middle Eighteen Hundreds, Beginning in Salt Lake Valley, to the Present Time. Tooele, UT: Tooele Transcript Press, 1964. Personal place name manuscript records. Writers' Program. Origins of Utah Place Names. 3d ed. Comp. and written by Utah Writers Project, Work Projects Administration. Sponsored and published by Utah State Department of Public Instruction. Salt Lake City, 1940. Utah State Historical Society. Unpublished Archives on Geographic Names.

EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS... 1. An asterisk (*) following a place name indicates past or present inhabitation. 2. When a series of letters and numbers are present towards the end of an entry after the ">" symbol, the first group indicates section/township/range as closely as can be pinpointed (i.e., S12,T3S,R4W,SLM, or USM). A section equals approximately one square mile, reflecting U.S. Geological Survey topographic map sections. Because Utah is not completely mapped, some entries are incomplete. In this case, whatever information is available will be provided. The second group, when present, is altitude in feet followed by meters in parentheses [i.e., 6,000' (1,829m)]. Altitude is not included with canyons or deserts with varying altitudes.

______SOURCE... Utah Place Names. Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah. University of Utah Press, 1990.

AUTHOR... Van Cott, John W.

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