Site: Hiawatha
Alternate Names: Black Hawk
County, State: Carbon, UT
Years of Occupation: 1911 - present
Status of Site: Closed
Classification: Class 4
Type: Coal Mining / Company Town / Rail
Remnants: Multiple buildings from both towns sites and tons of mining relics including tram wheel house and conveyors
GPS Coordinate: 39°29'03.3"N 111°00'41.2"W
Date of Last Visit: November 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiawatha,_Utah
http://utahrails.net/utahcoal/utahcoal-blackhawk.php
http://utahrails.net/utahcoal/utahcoal-u-s-fuel.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latter_Day_Church_of_Christ
Where to begin...I suppose I'll start with my connection to the place and then delve into some of the remarkable Utah history surrounding this site. Being that this site is 100% private property and legally inaccessible, my time there was in connection with a media company that I was a co-founder and owner of for the past few years. Our niche was the firearms and tactical markets, and through our sister company we have a lease to use the property for a variety of things ranging from content creation to live fire training for law enforcement, military and civilians. As such, the images I'm sharing were all taken in that context rather than some grand overlanding adventure. Over the past two years I've literally spent weeks on site covering a ton of ground.
It's a very weird place. Creepy one might say, from the history of a "company town" to the current ownership by the infamous Kingston Clan, there's no shortage of the bizarre. It was however, the most epic place to create the type of images we became known for and there isn't anywhere else that I have been able to find that could have allowed us to do so. That said, when I sold my stake in the business earlier this year being able to sever my ties to the current ownership of the site was of great relief from a moral position.
The above Utah Rails link to the Black Hawk Mine is to me the most fascinating historically as it details the original investors to include none other than John Moses Browning himself. Kinda fun to be up there 100 years later letting a couple of Ma Deuce's eat. I'll let my photos tell the rest of the story...
Urban sniper training from the bank to the general store
Force on force training in the general store with a local SWAT team
SWAT team in town
Conveyor
Wheel House / Mine entrance
Other buildings on site
My old LR4
Uber creepy drying room
Alternate Names: Black Hawk
County, State: Carbon, UT
Years of Occupation: 1911 - present
Status of Site: Closed
Classification: Class 4
Type: Coal Mining / Company Town / Rail
Remnants: Multiple buildings from both towns sites and tons of mining relics including tram wheel house and conveyors
GPS Coordinate: 39°29'03.3"N 111°00'41.2"W
Date of Last Visit: November 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiawatha,_Utah
http://utahrails.net/utahcoal/utahcoal-blackhawk.php
http://utahrails.net/utahcoal/utahcoal-u-s-fuel.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latter_Day_Church_of_Christ
Where to begin...I suppose I'll start with my connection to the place and then delve into some of the remarkable Utah history surrounding this site. Being that this site is 100% private property and legally inaccessible, my time there was in connection with a media company that I was a co-founder and owner of for the past few years. Our niche was the firearms and tactical markets, and through our sister company we have a lease to use the property for a variety of things ranging from content creation to live fire training for law enforcement, military and civilians. As such, the images I'm sharing were all taken in that context rather than some grand overlanding adventure. Over the past two years I've literally spent weeks on site covering a ton of ground.
It's a very weird place. Creepy one might say, from the history of a "company town" to the current ownership by the infamous Kingston Clan, there's no shortage of the bizarre. It was however, the most epic place to create the type of images we became known for and there isn't anywhere else that I have been able to find that could have allowed us to do so. That said, when I sold my stake in the business earlier this year being able to sever my ties to the current ownership of the site was of great relief from a moral position.
The above Utah Rails link to the Black Hawk Mine is to me the most fascinating historically as it details the original investors to include none other than John Moses Browning himself. Kinda fun to be up there 100 years later letting a couple of Ma Deuce's eat. I'll let my photos tell the rest of the story...
Urban sniper training from the bank to the general store
Force on force training in the general store with a local SWAT team
SWAT team in town
Conveyor
Wheel House / Mine entrance
Other buildings on site
My old LR4
Uber creepy drying room
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