These houses really look a bit short and non-designed this way. Right off of the main road in Cedar City, Utah. What do you think? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWbNUvZwDUo
The door on the back that I opened was stairs going down to the original 1st level? I thought the “foundation” on this building to be very odd shaped and looked like it may originally have been in the the middle of the building.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1GQMg5_zKI
In 1853, 304 people were recorded as belonging in the LDS Church congregation when John A. Ray replaced Anson Call as the leader of the Mormons in Fillmore. In 1880, the larger population was divided into two LDS congregations ("wards"). In November 1882, the two congregations were joined again. In 1920, the congregation was again divided. In 1930 Fillmore had a population of 1374.
Population
1860 715
1870 905
1880 987
1890 838
1900 1,037
1910 1,191
1920 1,490
1930 1,374
1940 1,785
1950 1,890
1960 1,602
1970 1,411
1980 2,083
1990 1,956
2000 2,253
2010 2,435
Fillmore, located near the geographic center of the territory, was originally built as the capital of Utah Territory. The Utah Territorial Legislature approved a plan to locate the capital in the Pahvant Valley. On October 28, 1851, Utah governor Brigham Young chose the specific site for Fillmore. Jesse W. Fox, that same day, surveyed the town. Anson Call headed the colonizing company that shortly followed; they built houses, a grist mill and a sawmill. The capitol building was begun in 1852.
In the following years some disagreements developed with the Native Americans in the area, but Brigham Young sent Dimick B. Huntington to the area and he managed to negotiate a peace. The region was considered as a route, along the 38th parallel, for the transcontinental railroad. Captain John W. Gunnison, leading a military party surveying the region, was attacked by a band of Pahvants (Ute) west of Fillmore. Gunnison and seven of his men were killed (October 1853). During the 1860s two forts, Fort Deseret and Cove Fort were constructed nearby as protection from Indian unrest.
In 1855, the territorial legislature met in Fillmore. However, in 1856, the legislature decided to move the Territorial Capital to the larger community of Salt Lake City
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LM5XnTCCQw
The “storyline” on this video is that the first red brick building was first a house built in 1890 and later the LDS church turned it into a “bishops storehouse” and later after that was turned into a “granary”. The second house is said by the family (living in it) to be five years younger built in 1895 and was ordered from “Sears out of a magazine.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dGTvJnaLEQ
There’s one last building I’m working on in Spanish Fork - the old Sugar Beet Factory. I’ll release it separately! Cheers!
In 1852, Latter-day Saints founded a settlement called Palmyra west of the historic center of Spanish Fork. George A. Smith supervised the laying out of a townsite, including a temple square in that year. A fort and a school were built at the Palmyra site in 1852. With the onset of the Walker War in 1853, most of the farmers in the region who were not yet in the Palmyra fort moved in. Some of the people did not like this site and so moved to a different site at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon, where they built a structure they called "Fort St. Luke". Also in 1854 there was a fort founded approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the center of Spanish Fork that later was known as the "Old Fort".
Between 1855 and 1860, the arrival of pioneers from Iceland made Spanish Fork the first permanent Icelandic settlement in the United States. The city also lent its name to the 1865 Treaty of Spanish Fork, where the Utes were forced by an Executive Order of President Abraham Lincoln to relocate to the Uintah Basin.
Population
1860 773
1870 1,450
1880 2,304
1890 2,686
1900 3,327
1910 3,751
1920 4,035
1930 3,727
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUs1gJO16HI
Coalville originally began as a settlement known as Chalk Creek. In 1854, the territorial government in Utah offered a $1000 reward to anyone who could find coal within 40 miles of Salt Lake City. Four years later, Thomas Rhodes found a coal vein in the Chalk Creek area, and coal mining began in earnest.Hundreds of tons of coal were shipped to Salt Lake City, and soon a narrow gauge railroad was built.The settlement was then renamed Coalville, as a result of this early success.
Coalville was officially founded in 1859 by William Henderson Smith, an early Mormon freighter. He noticed that wheat, spilled by other wagons moving through the area, would grow to maturity without being tended. He subsequently convinced four families to settle in the area with him.
Early life in Coalville was difficult, and during winters the settlers dealt with a constant scarcity of food. When food ran out, they would travel to Salt Lake City for supplies. The local Indian tribes were also hostile for a time, and the settlers built a fort on advice of Brigham Young. In 1867, Coalville was incorporated.
By 1880, success in the coal industry led to the extension of the railroad into Park City. Then known as the Summit County Railway, the railroad continued to transport coal, and was also used for Park City's silver mines.
Unlike most Mormon settlements in Utah and the intermountain west, Coalville city streets are not aligned to true north. Main Street in Coalville is offset such that it runs slightly north-northwest, and Center street runs slightly east-northeast.
Population
1870 626
1880 911
1890 1,166?..
1900 808
1910 976
1920 771
1930 938
1940 949
1950 850
1960 907
1970 864
1980 1,031
1990 1,065
2000 1,382
2010 1,363
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cAXhEK410o
She claimed to have heard her fellow Mormons say: "...Captain Gunnison and his party were murdered by the "Danites," [Mormon group] disguised as Indians, by, and with the knowledge, and "counsel" of the Prophet (Governor Brigham Young)."
Gunnison, Utah originally called Chalk Hill Point was settled in spring 1859 by a group led by Mormon Bishop Jacob Hutchinson. Gunnison was named by Brigham Young after Capt. John W. Gunnison, second in command of the Stansbury transcontinental railroad survey, who was born 11/11/1812 (the year of the New Madrid Earthquake) and was killed with six of his men by Paiutes near Sevier Lake 10/26/1853. Reports of the incident stated that it was an act of retribution by the sons of a Paiute leader who had been killed by some emigrants heading west. Utah Governor Brigham Young noted that Captain Gunnison underestimated the tension between the tribes and settlers. Due to earlier successes in negotiations with native people, Gunnison tried to resolve the situation. A formal investigation by Colonel Edward Steptoe brought forth varying testimony about the massacre. One unique statement was heard from a Mormon living in Salt Lake City. She claimed to have heard her fellow Mormons say: "...Captain Gunnison and his party were murdered by the "Danites," [Mormon group] disguised as Indians, by, and with the knowledge, and "counsel" of the Prophet (Governor Brigham Young)." In the end, Paiute Indians were indicted for the act.
During a fall visit in 1862, Young advised moving the town to the present site to escape the “swampy conditions”..
Gunnison, Utah Population
1870 475
1880 729
1890 845
1900 829
1910 950
1920 1,115
Several places have been named in honor of him:
1)The city of Gunnison, Utah
2)The city of Gunnison, Colorado
3)The Gunnison River in Colorado
4)Gunnison National Park,
5)Gunnison Basin,
6)Gunnison County, Colorado
7)Gunnison National Forest
8)Gunnison Reservoir in central Utah
9)Gunnison Island in the Great Salt Lake
10)Gunnison Lake in Goshen, New Hampshire
11)Gunnison Beach, a beach within the Sandy Hook unit of the Fort Hancock and the Sandy Hook Proving Ground Historic District which is the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area, NJ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVKiwwtbcuU