Moab History: The Ancestral load basket object through many lenses
Moabites have long cherished the Ancestral Pueblo load-bearing basket displayed in the Moab Museum.
Moabites have long cherished the Ancestral Pueblo load-bearing basket displayed in the Moab Museum.
Mitch Williams was one Moab resident whose life was shaped by his military service.
SR 128 has taken many forms over the years, from rudimentary singletrack primarily ridden by horses to a paved road.
Since cameras first made it to the Moab Valley, numerous photographs have captured and preserved the history of floods of Moab’s past.
Pictured here are some of the methods Euro-American settlers employed for irrigating and taming the waterways that wind their way through the Moab Valley.
Though the name and the lore of Matrimony Spring have been changed, warped, and told again many times, the spring itself still provides water to locals and travelers alike… and may still work its magic on those who imbibe.
The Moab Garage Company was a prominent business in Moab in the early 1900s.
The mountainside community of La Sal has experienced shifts in the years since the Euro-American settlement of the area in the 1870s and 1880s, including both in its name and location.
Aerial images over the decades help chronicle the large-scale changes Moab has experienced over the past century.