Volume 3, No. 9. May 9, 2003
A keeper
One of the major
elements of Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, Utah, is Pioneer Village, a
reconstruction of a typical frontier community set in the late 1800s. The village
comprises 42 buildings, most of those authentic originals and all but one of
those moved to the site from all around Utah. Many are museum pieces, furnished
as they would have appeared 150 years ago, while others house special exhibits
and retail outlets.
The one building remaining on its original site is a jail. The three-cell stone
building stood at the entrance to the Lagoon amusement park back at the turn
of the 20th century when it was still a trolley park. Troublemakers would be
thrown into the jail, where they would have to spend the night before taking
the morning train back to the city.
Such a structure many a park would consider an asset, but, obviously from its
appearance, Lagoon hasn’t used the jail for 84 years. During that interim,
the park’s Director of Marketing Dick Andrews said, “It’s tempting,
isn’t it?"
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