Bibliography
Local history always invites more questions, so if you would like to read more about community museums, family memory, and Utah history, the books and articles below offer starting points and may encourage you to look more closely at your surroundings, listen to nearby stories, and see the Farmington Historical Museum as part of a much larger conversation about how communities remember and define themselves.
Photo by Peter Atkisson
Orum, Alma. “We’re Building a Family ‘Museum.’” The Wisconsin Magazine of History 40, no. 4 (Summer 1957): 270–73. Accessed November 21, 2025. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4633141.
“Rural Utah at the Crossroads.” An Essay to Accompany the Utah Tour of the Smithsonian Museum on Main Street Exhibition Crossroads, co-authors Nathan Housely and Megan Weiss. Salt Lake City: Utah Humanities, 2023.
Stevens, Mary Lynn. “Wistful Thinking: The Effect of Nostalgia on Interpretation.” History News 36, no. 12 (December 1981): 10–13. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42656225.
Additional Reading –
Leonard, Glen M. A History of Davis County. Utah Centennial County History Series. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society and Davis County Commission, 1999.
May, Dean L. Utah: A People’s History. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987.
Handy, Stephen G. 2015. Lagoon: America’s Largest Family-Owned Amusement Park. Farmington, UT: Lagoon Corporation.
Schlereth, Thomas J. Artifacts and the American Past. Part Two. Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, 1990.
Primary Resources:
Carole Rosenstein and Neville Vakharia, 2022 National Census of History Organizations: A Report on the History Community in the United States (Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, 2022).
Davis County Clipper. July 13, 2004. Bountiful, UT. Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6kt2660.
Deed Records, Davis County Courthouse: Clerk’s Office, Farmington, Utah.
“Farmington Museum Dedicated.” Davis County Clipper (Bountiful, Utah), July 13, 2004, p. 5. https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6kt2660/28507862.
Hess, Margaret Steed. My Farmington: A History of Farmington, Utah, 1847-1976. Farmington, UT: Helen Mar Miller Camp, 1976.
Knowlton, George Quincy. A Brief History of Farmington, Utah. Compiled and edited by Jannetta K. Robinson. Kaysville, UT: Inland Printing, 1965.
Rudolph, Randy Hendrickson. The Rescue of Annie 1863: Ida Ann Rice Wilcox American Indian – Utah Pioneer. 2015.
Tidwell, Annette. Interview by Kristen F. Atkisson. Farmington, UT, October 13, 2025. Unpublished audio recording and transcript.
Secondary Resources:
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. “Farmington, Utah.” Preserve America Community. Accessed November 23, 2025. https://www.achp.gov/preserve-america/community/farmington-utah.
HRYNIEWICZ-YARBROUGH, EWA. “Objects of Affection.” Ploughshares 37, no. 1 (2011): 155–64. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41104189.
Kammen, Carol. On Doing Local History. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Kammen, Carol, ed. The Pursuit of Local History: Readings on Theory and Practice. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1996.
Karp, Ivan, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Steven D. Lavine, eds. Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Morgan, Jennie, Sharon Macdonald, Rodney Harrison, Caitlin DeSilvey, Cornelius Holtorf, Nadia Bartolini, Esther Breithoff, et al. “Curating Domestic Profusion.” In Heritage Futures: Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices, 202–22. UCL Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv13xps9m.19.