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Show 4 September 7 2001 ouncl the Count f The Summit County Bee around the late 1920s with two of their hoys. John and Barney. They lived on Rossi Hill in Fark City. James worked in the local mines and saved every extra penny so that he could purchase cows for a dairy business. Gradually, the Murnins started that dairy business and supplied most of Old Town with milk, cream and butter. With the help of his children, Jim worked early mornings milking the cows and The Peterson Barn herding the cattle to the lush fields of Deer Valley where they would graze during the day. The family would deliver the milk all over town with the help of two horses and a wagon. At night, they would bring all the cows back home to their house on the hill. Even though the doctors warned Ellen that having more children would be detrimental to her health she went on to have four more boys, Jim, William, Dee and Terry. Her heart was said to have been very weak and she ended up dying only a short time after having Terry. Jim and a sister who came out from Ireland to help him raise the boys after Ellens death moved to a property where Rotary Park now sits. With a growing dairy business of his own, Murnin leased 30 acres from a fellow dairy man, George Stahle, who owned another dairy empire in the Snyderville Basin. A BY: KARRI DELL HAYS Summil County Historical Society To most people, its just another big. old, white bam. To others, it's a part of the history of Summit barn County. This medium-size- d that is located on the second jog, (going north) on Old Ranch Road was originally built sometime in the 1920s by the Peterson Family. Later, it would become the home for many of Park City's most respected and devoted community members. The Petersons were successful farmers and owned a lot of land. It is said that they owned over 360 acres on the north and south side of Old Ranch Road. The area now called McCleod Creek was once called Peterson's Grove by locals and was said to be one Of the nicest spots in the valley to recreate and fish. One of the Peterson's sons. Victor, was a local school teacher who taught in the neighborhood elementary school house just a couple of blocks away. When the school was evensmall, torn the children were down tually two-rpo- m bussed into Park City. Victor Peterson worked for the Park City High School as a math teacher. The second residents of the farm were James Murnin and his six sons. James and Ellen Murnin emigrated from Ireland sometime few years later, James moved his six boys again, leasing the Peterson barn from George Stahle. The Stahles had acquired a portion of the Peterson farm Page A3 for a place of his own. Some of the remaining Snyder family members still lived in the Old Ranch Road area and were selling much of their property so that they could move to Salt Lake City. James purchased a small house and five acres from Rose Snyder who lived along Hwy-22just up from the Park City Nursery. Later. Murnin would acquire an 4, additional 30 acre parcel from Maude Snyder who lived right across the street in the area that is now called Snyder's Mill. James Murnin lived in the small house until his death in 1933. At that time, James' third son, Jim, who was still living at the Peterson farm moved into his father's home with his new wife, Yvonne and their young family. With outside competition taking over much of the dairy business in the area, Jim gradually sold all the dairy cows, but continued to work weddlngsTschool for the Salt Lake based. Clover Dairy and was known as Park Citys milk man for most of his life. Many of the Mumin children continue to live in Park City and is still the home on Hwy-22- 4 owned by his wife. The Peterson barn was pur- (HRMi'iHiBk chased by the Pope family in 1946. They ran a specialized farm work operation that included custom hay baling and other services. The farm was later purchased and is current- graduQtldnsTond ly owned by the Oagothorpe e Family who are also4 farmers and ranchers of Summit long-tim- County. COUNTY sometime around the 1930's. Along with some land for his dairy cattle, that land included a small Yvonne cabin that daughter-in-laMurnin said was merely a shack. By then, the Murnins had a good-size- d dairy business. Along with the Stahle's they shipped much of the milk down to Salt Lake on the nearby train. The house on the Peterson farm was painfully small however, and James had saved enough money I (MD I Got a News Tip? Cali us today ! 336-550- 1 SubscRibE To ThE SuMMiT County Bee NEW O W NER FOR Totally Locally Owned & Operated We accept all major credit cards. arnRSea Jjyuusn. OPY I i So Habla Espanol wfhmm Jim Owner Webster Now Available Ford Replacement Tires 675 West 100 South 435-657-97- 71 Heber City, Utah |