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History of the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. Taken from the Utah History Encyclopedia (Links Added). -1-. The Bonneville Salt Flats of the western Great Salt Lake Desert were formed through the evaporation of the Pleistocene-era Lake Bonneville. The salt flats are actually the bed of that once massive lake which rivaled in size present Lake Michigan. The flats are composed mainly of potash salts ranging in thickness from less than one inch to six feet.
Andrew Larsonâs text on the history of the name âDixieâ in Utah states that the first President of the Washington Stake in 1857, was Robert Dockery Covington, a slave overseer and slave owner from North Carolina and Mississippi. Larson states:he fact that the settlers at Washington were bona fide Southerners who were steeped in the lore of cotton cultureâmany of them, at leastâclinched the title. Dixie it became, and Dixie it remained. ... The name âDixieâ is one of those distinctive things about this part of Utah ...