Timeline

Utah Lake takes shape as a remnant of ancient Lake Bonneville, about 8,000 years ago.
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Fathers Domínguez and Escalante and eight companions ride north out of Santa Fe.
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The friars come out of Spanish Fork Canyon and see Utah Lake, the home of the Timpanogos Utes.
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Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco's map shows the Laguna de los Timpanogos, with villages on its east shore.

The first Latter-day Saint wagon company reaches the Salt Lake Valley.
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Settlers sent by Brigham Young found Fort Utah on the Provo River.
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At a council in Salt Lake City, Fort Utah's leader reports growing tension with the Utes.
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Militia surround Old Elk's camp on the Provo River. Dozens of Timpanogos Utes die in the fighting that follows.
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Pioneers settle Lake View at the mouth of the Provo River, next to Vineyard. Thomas Gammon is among them.
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The Uintah Valley is set aside as a reservation. Most Utes of Utah Valley move there in the 1860s.
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Floods on the Provo River and Utah Lake push Lake View families to higher ground, in 1861 and 1862.

Lake View families start their own Sunday School with Peter Madsen in charge. It soon becomes a ward.
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Shadrach Holdaway homesteads on the east shore and plants grapes. John Gillies plants vines too, and the name Vineyard sticks.

Carp are brought to Utah County in the early 1880s and soon fill Utah Lake.
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Captain John Dallin buys lakeshore land and opens the Geneva resort, named for his daughter.
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About 560 people live in the Vineyard area, most of them on farms.

Eight year old Rex Blake milks the family cows by hand before school.
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The Pleasant Grove Canning Company takes tomatoes from Vineyard and Lake View farms.

The Geneva resort closes, around 1935. Its buildings come down around 1939.
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One month before Pearl Harbor, the government approves a steel mill on Vineyard farmland.
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The Vineyard ward Sunday School sends books to its young men in the army and navy.
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By March 1942 the government has bought the farms for the mill.
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American Fork asks the county to widen the road north from Geneva for the mill's traffic.
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The first order of steel plate, 600 tons, ships to California shipyards building Liberty ships.
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A recruiter at the Provo employment office signs up farmers to work at the mill.
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Construction of the mill is complete, three years after it began.
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Three American airmen held in a German prison camp write to Geneva asking for jobs.
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Utah County leaders meet to keep the mill from closing after the war.
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The paper reports carols playing from the mill's Number 2 gate, enjoyed by Vineyard ward.
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The government sells the mill to U.S. Steel for $47.5 million.
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Geneva employs 30 percent of Utah County's workers. It nears 8,000 workers in the early 1960s.

At midnight, the Cannons reopen the mill as Geneva Steel Company. About 1,100 jobs are saved.
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The Wall Street Journal calls Geneva a "miracle mill." Two modern furnaces cut a batch from 5.5 hours to 45 minutes.
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Geneva Steel files for bankruptcy for the first time.
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Most of Geneva's roughly 1,200 workers are laid off.
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A second bankruptcy. Steelmaking at Geneva ends.
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A judge approves the sale of the mill's core equipment to Qingdao Iron and Steel of China for $40 million.
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The stacks, stoves and blast furnaces come down at daybreak. Former workers gather to watch.
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Anderson Geneva buys 1,750 acres of the Geneva site for $46.8 million.
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Vineyard becomes a town. Dairyman Rulon Gammon is its first mayor.
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The census counts 151 people in Vineyard. About three in four are related.
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Mayor Rulon Gammon announces the sale of his 94 acre dairy farm.
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Construction begins on the Lake Side Power Plant, partly on the old mill site. It is finished in 2007.
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The census counts 139 people in Vineyard.
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Utah Valley University begins buying land in Vineyard.
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UVU buys 125 acres of the Geneva site for a West Campus.
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Vineyard grows 417 percent from 2014 to 2015, faster than any city in America.
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The Megaplex at Geneva opens on the old mill site with Utah County's first IMAX screen.
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Vineyard passes 1,000 residents and becomes a city.

The census counts 12,543 people. No city in Utah grew faster that decade.

Work begins on the Provo River Delta, a 260 acre restoration for the June sucker.
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The June sucker, found only in Utah Lake, is moved from endangered to threatened.
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The Vineyard FrontRunner station opens at 130 E. Market Street.
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The developers of the old Geneva land name their 700 acre downtown Utah City.
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Leaders celebrate the opening of the restored Provo River Delta.
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Ground is broken for Bella's Market in Utah City.
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Bella's Market, a local grocery, opens in Utah City.
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About 20,000 people call Vineyard home. 250 years after the friars, the story is still being written.