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History
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Taken
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WOODSIDE Woodside (Emery) is at the crossing of the Price River and US-6, 50. It was settled by whites in 1881 and soon became a thriving farming community and a busy livestock loading station. The Price River occasionally flooded, the open rand disappeared, and railroad facilities improved to the point where nearby Helper became a more important town. After the cafe and store burned down in 1970, Woodside became a ghost town. John W. Van Cott |
| Note: There is a geyser in the center of Woodside that erupts ca. every 20 minutes. The railroad company was drilling a well when water shot up. Vandals threw some big rocks into the geyser hole and pluged it up. Guess they thought it would shoot the rocks up into the air. The geyser doesn't work now. Maybe if someone there would re-drill, it would come back to life. It is located in front of where the service station used to be. There was also a dry ice house near Woodside. The people that ran the business had a carbon dioxide well, and that is how they made their dry ice. To the nothwest is the old cemetery. |
| Sheridan Brinker |
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