Chase Mill News Today

Ten members of the Penobscot Paddle & Chowder Society gathered for a whitewater outing on the Piscataquog River in New Hampshire.

For more than 30 years, Tom Owens invested time, effort and whole lot of money into restoring a pioneer-era mill in Farmington. Now, preservation of the site will be in the city's hands.

Editors note: This article is a part of a series reviewing Utah and U.S. history for KSL.coms Historic section. SALT LAKE CITY — In February 1848, Isaac Chase stalled the vigorous swing of his pick at the sound of something metallic in a hole by a creek in what is now Liberty Park. Chase had arrived in the Salt Lake Valley four months earlier with the first wave of pioneer emigrants of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Breaking from the normal emigrant trails west, these pionee...