Originally published by Emily Anderson for the Standard-Examiner, Jan. 22, 2021
A new elementary school in the Box Elder School District will be named Golden Spike, the district’s school board voted last week.
It will be the first school to take on the name, which is in reference to the 17.6-karat golden spike used to complete of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869. The site where the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento and the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha met is at Promontory Summit, located in Box Elder County.
“We are unifying and combining two schools, and I think it might be a fun name for the area,” said board member Nancy Kennedy at a Dec. 9 board meeting, when she proposed the name.
The new school will bring together students from Foothill and Mountain View elementary schools, reducing the number of elementary schools in Brigham City to three. This year, according to enrollment data from the Utah State Board of Education, there were 491 and 359 students at each school, respectively.
Construction on the building is taking place at the site of the former Bunderson Elementary School, which closed in 2010, at 641 E. 200 North in Brigham City. It is slated to be finished in 2022.