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Don Roll

Oct 14, 2026

1:12
How did the idea for this m- historic mining route come to be?
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Well, that's a, a great question.
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And, uh, you know, we've b- uh, we've been spending the last 11 years saving the remaining structures before they disappear forever, 'cause they're, they've been basically abandoned for the last 70-plus years since the, uh, mines all shut down in the, in the '40s and '50s.
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And, uh, so w- as of, as of now, we've, we've spent, uh, $5 million between ourselves and our community partners saving 15 of the mining structures.
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And we're going, "Well, how can we make a story out of all the, these disparate, um, buildings that are all over, all over the mountain?" And, um, we were working with, um, we were consult- we were, as a consultant to the Chambers Experience Park City History Travel Stories t- Tour-

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Mm-hmm
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...
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Sandra Morrison, who were the former executive director of the museum, and the, and the current, uh, executive director in Rory Murphy, to come up, "How are we gonna...

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