Granite Mountain (Utah)

The Granite Mountain Vault Vault is a facility for the storage of historical data on microfilm in a granite cave near Salt Lake City (Utah, USA). The plant is operated by the Genealogical Society of Utah. The company wants to help members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints ( " Mormons " ) in collecting family history information, mainly to enable them the usual in their faith vicarious baptism and other ceremonies for deceased non-Mormon ancestors.

Location

The facility is about a mile from the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon located at Wasatch Range. It is located 20 miles southeast of Salt Lake City.

The system consists of two main areas: the office and laboratory area sits under an overhang of about 300 feet of granite. There you will find the microfilm processing and evaluation and administrative offices.

Under 700 feet of stone are the actual tunnels. Six chambers, each 190 meters long, 25 meters wide and 25 meters high, are located behind the laboratory. Specially designed Mosler doors weighing fourteen tons were designed to withstand a nuclear explosion was. In the six chambers, the natural conditions are given in order to obtain constant humidity and temperature for optimal storage of microfilms.

History

Since 1938, the Genealogical Society of Utah stores genealogical and historical information on microfilm. The headquarters of the organization is located in Salt Lake City. It was built in 1958-1963 at a cost of 2 million U.S. erDollar.