The town of Corinne was established when the transcontinental railroad was being completed in northern Utah in 1869. Settled primarily by gentile railway workers, it quickly mushroomed into a tough border town as well as a hotbed of anti-Mormonism. Faced with the prospect of this anti-Mormon town becoming a major railroad and metropolitan center in Mormon Utah, Brigham Young acted promptly. Purchasing property in the nearby Mormon community of Ogden, he offered the land to the Union Pacific and Central Pacific officials free of charge if they would locate their depot and shops there. The officials quickly accepted the offer and Ogden became a major railroad junction. And Corinne, the last of the “Hell on Wheels” railroad camps, died away to virtually a ghost town.
Campbell, p. 315.
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