The Vineyard History Calendar

The June sucker, found only in Utah Lake, is moved from endangered to threatened.

At a council in Salt Lake City, Fort Utah's leader reports growing tension with the Utes.

A judge approves the sale of the mill's core equipment to Qingdao Iron and Steel of China for $40 million.

Militia surround Old Elk's camp on the Provo River. Dozens of Timpanogos Utes die in the fighting that follows.

Ground is broken for Bella's Market in Utah City.

Three American airmen held in a German prison camp write to Geneva asking for jobs.

Captain John Dallin buys lakeshore land and opens the Geneva resort, named for his daughter.

By March 1942 the government has bought the farms for the mill.

Work begins on the Provo River Delta, a 260 acre restoration for the June sucker.

Settlers sent by Brigham Young found Fort Utah on the Provo River.

The Megaplex at Geneva opens on the old mill site with Utah County's first IMAX screen.

The first order of steel plate, 600 tons, ships to California shipyards building Liberty ships.

Construction begins on the Lake Side Power Plant, partly on the old mill site. It is finished in 2007.

American Fork asks the county to widen the road north from Geneva for the mill's traffic.

Vineyard becomes a town. Dairyman Rulon Gammon is its first mayor.

The government sells the mill to U.S. Steel for $47.5 million.

The first Latter-day Saint wagon company reaches the Salt Lake Valley.

Lake View families start their own Sunday School with Peter Madsen in charge. It soon becomes a ward.

Fathers Domínguez and Escalante and eight companions ride north out of Santa Fe.

Mayor Rulon Gammon announces the sale of his 94 acre dairy farm.

The Vineyard FrontRunner station opens at 130 E. Market Street.

Utah County leaders meet to keep the mill from closing after the war.

The developers of the old Geneva land name their 700 acre downtown Utah City.

At midnight, the Cannons reopen the mill as Geneva Steel Company. About 1,100 jobs are saved.

The friars come out of Spanish Fork Canyon and see Utah Lake, the home of the Timpanogos Utes.

Leaders celebrate the opening of the restored Provo River Delta.

A recruiter at the Provo employment office signs up farmers to work at the mill.

One month before Pearl Harbor, the government approves a steel mill on Vineyard farmland.

Most of Geneva's roughly 1,200 workers are laid off.

Anderson Geneva buys 1,750 acres of the Geneva site for $46.8 million.

Bella's Market, a local grocery, opens in Utah City.

Construction of the mill is complete, three years after it began.

The Vineyard ward Sunday School sends books to its young men in the army and navy.

The paper reports carols playing from the mill's Number 2 gate, enjoyed by Vineyard ward.