Moulton or ‘Moulten’, UT

    • Settled: in the 1870s
    • Origin of Name: Named for the town’s first postmaster, a man named Moulton
    • Known for: Located in Junction Valley, near the famous Vipont Mine near Oakley, Idaho; most of the Vipont’s miners lived in Moulton, during boom-years of the early 1900s; had a post office 1910-1930; also associated with a ranch established by William Denton Moulton in the Heber Valley; a lonely brick schoolhouse remains, marking the location of a once-bustling community
    • Location: Five miles east of Goose Creek, a few miles south of the Idaho border, thirty-five miles north of the railway station at Lucin and twenty-six miles south of the Oregon Short Line Railroad as it passed near Oakley, Idaho; two miles south of Granite Pass on the old California Emigrant Trail at the convergence of Junction and Cottonwood Creeks
    • No Population estimates for this isolated, Northern Utah ghost town 

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