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Ajax, Utah
Ajax is a ghost town located in the Rush Valley area of southeastern Tooele County, Utah, USA. The town grew up around a unique department store started in 1869〔 by a Welsh immigrant named William Ajax. He operated the Ajax Underground Store until his death in 1899, and the settlement came to an end as the other residents left by 1900. All that remains today is a hole in the ground, with a historical marker standing nearby. ==History== The area was first settled in 1863 by a group of Welsh farmers, who called their little settlement ''Centre'' for its location in the middle of the valley between Stockton and Vernon.〔 As numerous mines were being developed in eastern Tooele County in the 1860s, small towns began to dot the region. In 1869, William Ajax, whose department store business in Salt Lake City was failing, moved his family to a dugout in the Centre area.〔 He had learned of the emerging market and started growing hay to sell to the mines. He built a two-room adobe house as a permanent shelter close to his hay fields.〔〔 More accustomed to keeping a shop than raising a crop, Ajax soon began stocking the kitchen shelf with dry goods and supplies to sell to passing travelers. Business boomed; by 1870 a post office was set up in his store,〔 which had outgrown the Ajax home and needed its own location.
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