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Hite, Utah

This photo shows canoers unloading their boat from the Hite Ferry in 1952. Hite was founded as a gold mining town in the nineteenth century before becoming the site of an Atomic Energy Commission uranium mill during World War II. The area was best known, however, for Dandy Crossing, one of the easiest ways across the Colorado River for hundreds of miles. In 1963, Hite disappeared underneath Lake Powell.