Site 5 - Granite Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District

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• Callaway, Judson and Richards, Su. “Electricity for Everything”: The Progress Company and the Electrification of Rural Salt Lake County, 1897-1924.” Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 70, No. 3, Summer 2002.

• Dastrup, Boyd L. “Electrification of Utah 1880 to 1915, A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History.” 1976. Utah State University, Logan, Utah. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/.

• “Electrifying Zion – The Big Cottonwood Power Transmission, Salt Lake City, Utah.” The Electrical Engineer, September 11, 1895, New York, New York, Vol. 20, no. 384, p. 245-259. The Insulator Gazette, https://reference.insulators.info/publications/.

• Haycock, Obed C. “Electric Power Comes to Utah.” Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 45. Spring 1977.

• “Hydro Hall of Fame: Honoring the Foundations of Hydropower.” Hydro Review. HCI Publications, September, 1996, p. 1-7. 

• McCormick, John S. “Electrical Development in Utah.” Utah History Encyclopedia, https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia, Utah Education Network.

• “The Big Cottonwood Power Transmission.” The Journal of Electricity,  New York, New York, August 1896, Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 21-24. The Insulator Gazette, https://reference.insulators.info/publications/.

• US Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, “Granite Power Plant Hydroelectric Historic District” https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_UT/89000283.pdf