Contractors Found An Intact Pioneer Home Inside A Modern House And Were Taken Aback By The Sight

“We peeled layer by layer,” Bill Fairbanks explains as he tries to describe how his crew of contractors unveiled a long-hidden piece of Utah history. He knows that surprises can be waiting even when you start renovating an apparently normal home, but he could never have predicted this. An unexpected wooden structure had emerged from the drywall. And it must’ve been there for more than 100 years.

Family City USA

The location’s Orem in Utah, which you’ll find about 40 miles from Salt Lake City. With just under 90,000 inhabitants, this is the state’s fifth-biggest metropolis. Orem’s historically been known for its orchards and steelworks, but it’s also a place that has been changing rapidly. It’s gone from “the Garden City of Utah” to “Family City USA.”

Older than Utah

You might think that an ordinary 20th-century house in somewhere such as Orem’s an unlikely place to find a remarkable historical artifact. After all, it didn’t become a city until 1919 and Utah’s only officially been a state since 1896. Yet somehow the busy road known today as State Street still has remnants from before either of those dates.

Look into the past

Of course, people didn’t just suddenly appear in Utah on the day it joined the Union. There’s a longer history here and it’s a fascinating one. And if you want to learn more about how it became the place it is today, then you aren’t alone. A direct window into the past like the one discovered in Orem’s the sort of thing that makes lots of people excited.

Hiding in plain sight

Normally, though, you expect to see these great historical discoveries being made in ruined temples or dramatic-looking mansions. When you’re living your everyday life in a regular home, you probably don’t stop to think that perhaps there’s a treasure trove beneath your feet. So it wasn’t until the house was half-destroyed that people could finally witness what’d been hidden there all along.