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History of Sunshine, Utah

Sunshine (Tooele) was a small mining town one mile up Sunshine Canyon at the southwest tip of the Oquirrh Mountains. Although the town was established in the 1890s, it was abandoned by 1918 and is now a ghost town.

John W. Van Cott


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