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Ghost Towns of Southern Utah

Class - Fall Only | FULL (Membership Required)

Udvar Hazy   -, --   United States
Room 121
Lectures on 9/12 & 10/3 & Field Trips 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/7, 10/14, 10/21
Friday, September 12, 2025-Tuesday, October 21, 2025
10:00 AM-10:50 AM MDT on Fri
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Ghost Towns of Southern Utah

Class - Fall Only | FULL (Membership Required)

This 7-week course consists of two classroom lectures and six field trips to ghost towns. This class will provide an overview of ghost towns in Washington County and two ghost towns in Iron County, Utah. Ghost towns discussed will include: Adventure, Atkinville, Bloomington, Price, Tonaquint, Harrisburg, Hebron, Dalton, Duncan's Retreat, Grafton, Northrop, and Shunesburg in Washington County, and Irontown and Stateline in Iron County.

Classroom lectures will be held on Friday, Sept. 12 and Friday, Oct. 3 from 10:00-10:50am in Hazy 121. 

Ghost Town field trips are scheduled on Tuesdays: Sept 16, 23, 30 & Oct 7, 14, 21.

By registering for this activity, you agree to the release of liability as specified - CLICK HERE for liability agreement. NO DOGS ALLOWED on field trips, per Utah Tech policy.

Watch for emails with links to sign up for field trips. Here is our Fall Schedule:

Friday, Sept.12: Classroom lecture & field trip sign-ups - 10-10:50am - Introduction on exploration, settlement and abandonment of towns. Discussion of Atkinville, Price, Tonaquint and Bloomington.

Tuesday, Sept. 16: Field trip to Hebron Cemetery - 7:45am-1pm

Tuesday, Sept. 23: Field trip to Harrisburg - 7:45am-12pm

Tuesday, Sept. 30: Field trip to Grafton - 7:45am-1pm

Friday, Oct. 3: Classroom lecture - 10 to 10:50 a.m. - This lecture will focus on the ghost towns of Dalton, Mountain Dell, Adventure, Northrop, Duncan’s Retreat, Shunesburg and Zion.

Tuesday, Oct. 7: Field trip to Silver Reef - 7:45am-11am (bring $3 entrance fee for museum)

Tuesday, Oct. 14: Field trip to Hamblin and Holt cemeteries. New this year! - 7:45am-1pm

Tuesday, Oct. 21: Field trip to Stateline and Irontown in Iron County, UT - 7:45am-4pm






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Loren Webb

  • Master of Arts Degree in Communications, December 1981, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
  • Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism Education and a minor in History, December 1979, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
  • History/Geography 7 Instructor, Saville Middle School, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 2004 to May 2020
  • State of Nevada Professional License and endorsements in Speech, History of the U.S. and the World, Journalism and Communication
  • Utah Professional Educator License, Level 2, endorsements in Journalism, Speech and History
  • English/Journalism instructor, Uintah High School, Vernal, Utah, August 2001 to August 2004
  • President, Washington County Historical Society, St. George, Utah, January 2021 to March 2023
  • Served on a volunteer basis from 1992 to 1996 as chairman, Washington County Centennial History Committee, which worked with two authors (Doug Alder and Karl Brooks) to update the history of Washington County, Utah as part of a Utah State Historical Society project to update the county histories of all 29 counties of Utah
  • Co-taught History of Utah's Dixie (evening course) with local historian Bart Anderson from January to March 1991 under direction of Dixie College History Professor Robert Slack