tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88243419978483690852024-03-12T20:58:51.259-07:00Historic and Interesting SitesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824341997848369085.post-27975229090565626012010-09-13T14:37:00.000-07:002010-09-13T14:37:49.075-07:00Las Vegas and the Old Mormon FortLas Vegas is a town that I enjoy visiting. I am not a gambler per se. I do a roll or two of nickels when I am there but I am really interested in many of the shows and especially the eats! <br />
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The restaurants and smorgasbords are fantastic. One of my favorite things to do in Vegas is to watch the parades. I am a people watcher and there are hundreds of spots in the big casinos or on the mall they made on the old Fremont Street. <br />
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Just pick a spot and sit back and watch all the people who go by. It can be very fascinating to just watch the variety of people who are present. <br />
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Another treat are the many museums that are to be found in Vegas. Many are within the casinos out on the strip but there are also a number elsewhere in the city like the Liberace Museum, which I hear will close in October of this year, but also the Elvis Museum and there are a number of other interesting sites to visit. <br />
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Las Vegas is a Spanish name and means the Meadows and the area was an oasis on the Old Spanish Trail from New Mexico to California. Paiutes, trappers, the early Spanish explorers used it as a rest stop in their travels and at that time there was clear running water and green grass meadows as far as the eye could see. <br />
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In 1855 Brigham Young sent a group of 30 missionaries to settle in the Las Vegas area. They were to establish a settlement and work with the Indians and teach them farming. Brigham Young wanted a settlement in this area because it was a half way point between Salt Lake and the San Bernardino Mission. <br />
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They built a small building out of adobe and started raising some crops and began to work out some irrigation but soon abandoned the endeavor when the San Bernardino Mission closed. <br />
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The building was later added to and a 14 foot wall was built around the site by later ranchers and such. It was called a fort but there was never any permanent troops posted there. The Old Mormon Fort sat on what must have been a pretty good source of water and is a look into the history of Las Vegas. In the 1850s there was water and what must have been some good grassland but the water source later dried up -- I suppose? Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824341997848369085.post-5783715025013170982010-09-13T13:12:00.000-07:002010-09-13T13:32:07.633-07:00Lake Havasu City, Arizona - London BridgeLondon Bridge is a bridge that was first built across the Thames River in England nearly 2000 years ago. <br />
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The first bridge that was built was built about 50 AD by the Romans and was probably a pontoon bridge. Over the years a number of bridges have been built and destroyed on the site where London Bridge stands.<br />
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I remember as a kid playing London Bridges Falling Down when I was in grade school. That game is said to come from a poem that was written by an English poet after a Norwegian Prince destroyed the bridge in 1031 AD. <br />
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Time and again London Bridge was destroyed and rebuilt and sometimes the structure was altered. At one point in time they even let people build shops and houses on the bridge along side the roadway. The bridge authorities rented the space for them to build on with the intent of generating revenue to pay for the upkeep of the bridge. <br />
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The shops and houses were allowed to jut out into the roadway by 7 feet on each side and then overhang the water by 7 feet the other direction. Some were built as high as 7 stories. That meant that 7 feet of the roadway was taken up on each side of the bridge or 14 feet. Out of the 26 foot roadway that left only 12 feet for travel, 6 feet in each direction. <br />
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During that time it was not unusual to take over an hour just to cross the bridge. Many times people would take the ferries that ran at the side of the bridge so they could get across faster. <br />
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Another period of time saw pikes placed on the South Gate of the bridge and heads of individuals who had been executed were placed on the pikes and displayed. William Wallace of Braveheart fame was the first of those displayed and that display grew to 30 heads displayed.<br />
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As time passed the bridge kept changing and adapting to try to handle the traffic flowing across it until in about 1970 it was decided that the bridge needed to be replaced. The old one was no longer able to accommodate the volume and crush of traffic and so the Common Council of London placed the old bridge on the market and started looking for buyers. <br />
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That is when an American entrepreneur, Robert P McCullough, stepped in and bought the bridge for 2.5 million dollars. <br />
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London has a new bridge in the place where London Bridge stood for nearly 2000 years but the older London Bridge that participated in so much English History including the German Blitzkrieg over London in World War II now stands in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824341997848369085.post-42475517798923391792010-08-29T11:02:00.000-07:002010-08-29T11:02:11.562-07:00Porter's PlaceOrrin Porter Rockwell is a well known character in Utah and Mormon history. He joined the LDS Church in the early days and was a very close friend to Joseph Smith the church's founder. He was Joseph Smith's bodyguard and assumed those same duties for Brigham Young after Joseph Smith's death. <br />
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Porter Rockwell migrated west with the church and was a deputy US Marshal in the Utah Territory and had the reputation of never bringing prisoners back alive. He did say that he never killed anyone who didn't need killing tough. <br />
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He settled in Lehi, Utah, and I have been told he had a Livery Stable on Main Street. He also had the Hot Springs Brewery and Hotel at a site near the point of the mountain. <br />
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Orrin Porter Rockwell's presence is still here with us though. He sits on the point of the mountain at the Porter Rockwell Business Park just off the freeway where he waves to all the passers by, and Lehi's Main Street still sports a restaurant bearing his name, Porter's Place and it is a place that warrants a visit or two or more.<br />
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The restaurant is owned by descendants of Porter Rockwell and they have a varied menu, but some very good steaks. The atmosphere is very special though. It is reminiscent of those days in which Porter lives and the place is filled with items and mementos from that era.<br />
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It is well worth the effort to visit.<br />
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Besides the Steaks are Good!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824341997848369085.post-5429738592016156332010-08-27T11:36:00.000-07:002010-08-31T15:25:38.415-07:00Granite Quarry for the Salt Lake TempleIn 1860 the Granite Quarry in Little Cottonwood started operation. Construction of the Salt Lake Temple had begun with the laying of the cornerstones for the foundation in 1853 but in 1857 with the coming of Johnston's Army the foundation of Red Butte Sandstone was covered and all activity at the site hidden. <br />
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</div><div>Plans called for the foundation to be of sandstone and the walls to be build of Granite, however after the Army left in 1861 and the foundation uncovered it was found to be defective. So it was decided to tear out the sandstone foundation and replace it with Granite. </div><div><br />
</div><div>The Quarry operations had started just the year before and were working very hard to provide the Granite to build with. <br />
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</div><div>The quarry men used hand tools to cut and break the Granite into blocks that could be shipped. In order to break the boulders into workable sizes holes were drilled along a line that had been placed with a chalk line. Holes were drilled at about 3-6 inch intervals along the line and about 6 inches deep. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNeFZ0ZRLumt7gyJhuWBbDlSxK799u-g5SEXuL0XSzYP2QFB6n8OHCKN54mG4NBnqc6pSgilrcjE9yQJ1n_eLGsvHR7VdOZCiF6XukIwLvZtBhIhl4A_grZC8Xz4Yw6E0VNNZfahD0UYQ/s1600/DSC_0030.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNeFZ0ZRLumt7gyJhuWBbDlSxK799u-g5SEXuL0XSzYP2QFB6n8OHCKN54mG4NBnqc6pSgilrcjE9yQJ1n_eLGsvHR7VdOZCiF6XukIwLvZtBhIhl4A_grZC8Xz4Yw6E0VNNZfahD0UYQ/s320/DSC_0030.JPG" width="214" /></a></div><br />
</div><div>One man would hold a 16 inch star drill while another would hit the drill with an 8 pound hammer. (The holder must have a trust in the hammerer, I would think.) A two man team like this could drill about 1 hole every 2 hours, that means in a 10 hour shift they could drill 5 holes. </div><div><br />
</div><div>After the holes were drilled then wedges were driven in along the holes until the granite cracked and split along the line of the holes and that would continue until they were the size that was needed. </div><div><br />
</div><div>Then using logs and levers the Granite blocks were loaded on wagons for the trip to Salt Lake. With the coming of the railroad the hauling part of this process became much easier and much faster. </div><div><br />
</div><div>There were 3 types of laborers who worked in the quarries. There were teamsters who hauled the Granite to Salt Lake. Then the common laborers who were sent from the surrounding wards and would come for a week to 10 days at a time. There was also skilled quarrymen and stone masons who worked at the quarry and also the Temple site. </div><div><br />
</div><div>There were usually 40-80 men working in the quarry and they worked 10 hour days. </div><div><br />
</div><div>With the coming of the railroad the hauling of the Granite was much easier and the quarry work moved to a site higher in the canyon where a better supply of Granite was found. With the laying of the capstone on the Temple in 1892 the Quarry was closed. </div><div><br />
</div><div>However the quarry was reopened just after 1900 in order to quarry the stone for the construction of the Utah State Capitol Building. Then it was opened again for the building of This is the Place Monument. </div><div><table style="width: 194px;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table></div><div>The quarry has been opened one more time in recent years to provide the stone for the New Conference Center. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824341997848369085.post-55377116147278695452010-08-24T13:40:00.000-07:002010-08-31T15:14:57.911-07:00Lake BonnevilleIn the distant past Lake Bonneville covered a good sized part of Utah. It also extended west into part of what is now Nevada and also north into what is now Idaho. It is said to have been over a thousand feet in depth and was about the size of Lake Michigan. <br />
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There were no outlets for this lake and so it kept rising until the water level reached over 5000 feet in elevation and was able to breach a place called Red Rock Pass in Idaho where it began to flow down into the Snake River. <br />
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However the water quickly eroded nearly 400 feet of elevation from Red Rock Pass and caused much devastation and flooding in the area heading for the Snake River. It also caused the level of the water in the lake to drop drastically. <br />
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That drop and a diminished flow of water into the lake caused it to shrink over several thousand years. Because of the drop in water level there was no more outlet and the water just evaporated. The lake shrank and because it was from evaporation the salinity of that water grew and grew and grew and grew. <br />
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Salt and chemicals that came into the lake from the streams were left behind with the evaporation that was taking place. As the waters evaporated and the lake shrank the concentration of salt and chemicals became stronger and left deposits of salt on the areas where the lake had once been. <br />
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These deposits are still there in the form of flats and if you drive west from Salt Lake City on I-80 and look to the north it is possible to see these stretches of white salt, perfectly level, going for miles and miles. Nothing grows, no plants, no grass, no trees just white salt.<br />
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But the demise of Lake Bonneville has left remnants to remind us that it was here. The Great Salt Lake is a very definite mark that is still here and has been a source of wonder for years. Utah Lake further south is another remnant of that once great lake. <br />
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And the salt flats that stretch for so many miles to the west, all the way to the Bonneville Raceway where so many come to see who can go the fastest and possibly be crowned as the fastest driver on this earth.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824341997848369085.post-16334056607734107932010-08-17T10:40:00.000-07:002010-08-27T19:02:19.339-07:00The Salt Lake Temple - A Monument in StoneIn the latter part of July of 1847 the first group of pioneers arrived in this the Great Salt Lake Basin. Due to the fact that it was late in the season and they would have to sustain themselves through the winter, that was just a few months away, work started immediately to get crops planted. Also building of shelters was started to help sustain themselves in the coming months.<br />
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Even though there was an urgent need for the work of building shelters and planting crops on July 28, 1847, Brigham Young selected a 40 acre site for the Temple to be built on and from that site the city was to be laid out perfectly square, north, south, east and west. The Temple site was later reduced to 10 acres and now sits at the center of Salt Lake City.<br />
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Truman O. Angell was chosen as the architect in 1852 and the ground breaking for the new Temple was in 1853. The corner stones were laid for the Temple on April 6, 1853. <br />
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By the end of June of 1855 the foundation of Red Butte sandstone was nearly complete but troubles with crops and failures required most of the workmen to be pulled from the project.<br />
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Then on July 24, 1857, word was received of Johnston's Army coming to quell the supposed Mormon uprising and so the foundation and stone work was buried and the site plowed to make it look like a field for crops and then left that way until 1861 after the army had left. <br />
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When the foundation was uncovered it was found to be defective. There were cracks in the sandstone and some deterioration in parts of the foundation so it was decided that it needed to be torn out. <br />
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On discovering the problems Brigham Young had sent all the workers home and then he sat down on the foundation and then stated that he would sit there until the Lord revealed to him what to do to correct the problem. As he sat contemplating he was approached by Bishop Gardner, the Bishop of the Salt Lake Ward at the time who asked him what he was doing. <br />
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Brigham explained that he intended to sit there until the Lord told him what to do about the foundation and Bishop Gardner after looking at the foundation told Brigham that the mortar was the problem. The foundation needed to be torn out and a new foundation laid of granite but with no mortar. The blocks needed to cut and trued so that they would lay stone against stone. <br />
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Brigham arose from his seat on the foundation, slapped Bishop Gardner on the shoulder and said "I have my revelation."<br />
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The original sandstone foundation was 10 feet thick at the top and 16 feet thick at the bottom and was 8 feet in height. The top of the foundation sat 8 feet below the ground level on the east side of the site. This foundation was replaced with a granite foundation that is 16 feet thick and 8 feet in height. <br />
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The Granite Quarry in Little Cottonwood Canyon had started operation in 1860, the granite was there and it was available but it was 22 miles from Salt Lake and the Temple site. For a good 15-18 years the granite was hauled to the Temple site on wagons pulled by oxen or mules. Some of the granite blocks were a good 4,000 to 5,000 pounds each and it would take four days to make a round trip with the wagons. <br />
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It took until 1867 for the first course of stone to rise above ground level. There were 600 granite blocks in each course of stonework and it would take 2-3 years to complete each course. <br />
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An interesting observation can be found by looking at the windows of the Temple. When walking around close to the outside walls it is noticeable that the windows are inset almost three feet into the wall. That is the same on the inside of the building. Those windows are set in the center of the walls. The thickness on those upper walls is 6 feet thick sitting on a foundation that is 16 feet by 8 feet of solid granite.<br />
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By 1877 when the Brigham Young died the walls were just up to the first story but with the coming of the railroad in 1869 things changed. Within just a few years after the linkup of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Summit there were rail lines laid south to Utah county and also from Sandy to the Granite Quarries.<br />
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That solved a major obstacle for the builders. Now the granite could be hauled by railroad and work on the Temple construction accelerated drastically. On April 6 1892 at a ceremony Wilford Woodruff set the capstone by using electricity. At that ceremony he called on the Saints to continue their effort and finish the interior of the Temple so that it could be dedicated the following year. <br />
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April 6, 1893, Wilford Woodruff dedicated the Salt Lake Temple. That day was 40 years to the day after the groundbreaking ceremonies in 1853. At the time of the dedication only 11 of the General Authorities and the workmen who attended the ground breaking were still living. <br />
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The Salt Lake Temple is truly a monument to the strength, courage, tenacity and faithfulness of those men and women who entered this Valley of the Great Salt Lake in 1847.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824341997848369085.post-77759637974672076772009-08-10T08:48:00.000-07:002009-09-15T14:48:39.123-07:00This Is The Place MonumentOn April 7, 1847, a group of Mormon pioneers led by Brigham Young left Winter Quarters in Nebraska (Omaha area).<br /><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div></div><div>They were going to the Great Basin to settle and develop a place for them to live where they could exist without the persecution they had suffered for many years. In this vangaurd company there were 73 wagons, 143 men, 3 women, and 2 children, making in all 148 souls. </div><div></div><div>They traveled across the plains through the center of this country and continued on through the canyons of the Rocky Mountains until on July 24, 1847, they arrived at the mouth of what we call Emigration Canyon and beheld the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. </div><div><br />Brigham Young had been sick for several days preceding the 24th and was riding in the back of Wilford Woodruff's carriage. </div><div>The accounts say a carriage but Wilford Woodruff's wagon in the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Museum is a wagon. But then..........................</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway upon arriving at the spot where they could look over the valley Brigham arose from the bed he had in the wagon and after surveying the scene he beheld before him he made the statement that "This is the right place, drive on."</div><div><br /></div><div>There was a small group that had entered the valley three days before so the group that entered on the 24th was not really the first but the event is commemorated on the 24th of July with Brigham's arrival and declaration.<br /></div><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368373805889006866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtqjXjlOLnm90pks94Y1ZZyzPqEg_bDYth5heFqDF7QNptBuSVqp5-mltnMyPeo-JnHONSudDL5NyN0_KJ5RfP4NxUnIHeqEreyy77YZv1GMh2Mre5fPWgokb4r7Ejs9k7NToccjPuwpU/s400/100_0279.jpg" border="0" />This marked the beginnings of serious settlement of the areas around the Great Basin and eventually led to many towns and cities being established and Utah becoming a state in the Union.<br /><div></div><div>It was decided that a monument should be erected to commemorate the arrival of the pioneers in this valley. In 1937 Mahroni M. Young, a grandson of Brigham Young was selected to design the monument which he did and in 1947 the monument was dedicated in conjunction with the centennial celebration of the entrance of the pioneers to the valley. </div><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368377701439222322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisXBO3ILfCL-wVFJWv755u1kAuZgUHBdDClRCxdTyiCU_WyaTlTpMMj0ztROIdK4APaWXMXoOUiS4ijyXdxKfyNuavj4opO1Sbus4jC-mkEAq6Oe6Yxx20sAs9lZBxH7OZolrL_ttXT48/s400/3805114073_478676d8b9_o.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div>The monument is 60 feet in height and 86 feet long. At the top of the pedestal stand Brigham Young in the center and Wilford Woodruff on the south and Heber C. Kimball on the north. All three were prominent leaders in the beginnings of Mormonism and were very important part of the move to and settling of this part of the West.<br /></div><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368373790560588050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuhB78HhHXf7HH9Sj-m3El0fLcS0qoDimZZenH6KrsiSVGJ5fQWeXr5UWpTkwO22UaVTjnQJESl37IyG1yP9FJ0PURL4HRTbnUulE_KPxkeq1qjEujQljpfWtBaIS4rBaKZBGinbMMIsI/s400/100_0277.jpg" border="0" /> </div><div>Along with the three men on top there are a number of other individuals and groups memoralized on plaques, reliefs, and statues.<br /><br /><br /><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368373802379108418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil3IFkRtLpq-n5xaWsDBuSQpycuy2ULCDt72tuQ6kuE6YvMSWamO3jESxeppoqklCUdA5ZSq1YQwmeeOTEo2Q1O3EZGaxwig5VDypbaMWFfgrlXQYUv5s7cG1rqyj3Jm3WvZaeSKyDCwc/s400/100_0275.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div>The early explorers and trappers and others who helped to open this part of the west for exploration are remembered.<br /></div><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368373796122032226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ISarvI5YryVsq-aF1Q9WwJheaBIQYGbBq_gfhiCHGBGe3PwqeDSs06_1J2ZhtJ4CL3gPU3H1CdLZLeF6EWGpgYNeiBnZRjjL_dYnu07uWHUjbwQ-IRiuxpHD-rtg_KbpV3vhiBmsCbo/s400/100_0274.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368373788817095250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDTlK336fAlVVfq_gd8M4TnOzOgjGpOd3uCCwwTHk2G1ZkbLnQwa-IzHGO8Rpy5McHHr-8-Of0CmzuicLdfenL9FTlc6CaxktvC1v5UxyDpAP_oe30p1bhB2buE_I7oKtARuYYkP_oxSM/s400/100_0270.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div>The monument is very interesting to see and it is worth the time to stop and really look at all that is shown about the early settlers and explorers. </div><br /><div>The monument is easy to get to and is right across the street from the Hogle Zoo. And the Hogle Zoo could be another part of a trip to the area. They also have a restaurant on the site, the Monument Cafe, serving a monumental sandwich. </div><br /><div>I went back to get a sandwich but found out the cafe is closed on Sunday. </div><br /><div>One note of interest. The site of the monument must be on a place that was more suited to </div><div>build because there is a white obelisk about 200-300 feet up the hill from the parking lots, to the northeast that is the original marker of the site where Brigham Young made his statement.<br /><br /></div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368376152126065154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlKxNpKfTZmzhutLMQCQbTQ_ebePETDmVpuRb9FnKldCPOZXctCzgFAqpv8ScSteW0UwHWK-oYEqXidCH_Y-A3Rdo26pmqMSiJLmcc-CidIXHEmmTcy8jzND_iJiMupwvCfRh_pVci5ds/s400/3805139891_b1dbb9e9db.jpg" border="0" /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824341997848369085.post-23652847167964007822009-07-23T08:15:00.000-07:002010-01-18T11:43:10.905-08:00Fillmore State House<div align="left">Over the years I have gone back and forth along the I-15 Freeway. I have stopped in Fillmore a few times to get something to eat or get gas and such but never really stopped and looked around in the town.<br />
</div><div align="center"></div><div align="left">Then one day it dawned on me that Fillmore was at one the time the State Capitol and so I decided that I would stop and take a little time and check it out. <br />
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</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><strong>It was time well spent!</strong><br />
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Looking back, on July 24, 1847 the main body of the first group of Mormon pioneers arrived in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake or the Great Basin. <br />
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</div><div align="left">The pioneers went to work immediately to start planting crops and building shelters but Brigham Young also sent groups out in all directions to explore and gather knowledge of the surrounding territory. They were looking for knowledge about the availability of materials and resources and also looking for other places that would be good locations for more settlements. <br />
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</div><div align="left">The Salt Lake Valley was the headquarters but Brigham Young was looking ahead and anticipating many more pioneers following after the first groups. And follow they did and for many as they arrived they were dispersed by Brigham to the surrounding areas, north, south, east and west, to start other settlements and to build up the country around.<br />
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</div><div align="left">Just four years after arriving in the Great Basin, in 1851, then Governor Brigham Young stuck his cane into the dirt on a spot and declared it to be the site of the new State Capitol, but not of Utah. <br />
</div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361685067609096562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFytb-dzVLTHs6jkbu_MiJHtvRxthoHAH2irTJ1L1vbknSTEJdgsoqvoJJixG9RZHWS0pKqNtRAWEVNlVFWgJtSBcI5-m-R9bcqaUvj9iPJF0tJfimr4cOEAGc7nCvahnfguKLNB0qjOA/s400/000_0049.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 288px;" /> It was to be the capital of the new State of Deseret and the new capital was 150 miles south of the Salt Lake settlements. The State of Deseret was envisioned by Brigham Young as a place where the Saints could thrive and grow. The place he designated for the state capital was a central location of what would have been a huge state.<br />
<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361685062071514434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiGo92cSd3VBkynK8oLzpjiPxqysbTs3vUqbU3M-31xbUEg0iCTZN6pZEn22Lpfz0uYVfAo5yi4eF5LQ1g38MqhyphenhyphenNqwvDcmcGy1k6StTUV34tjn0t9QCj-Ig1Eie2oU_s6_KZBtA8OHuA/s400/000_0046.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 303px;" /><br />
Deseret was to be somewhat square and about 500 miles across. It was to incorporate all of present day Utah, part of Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, and Idaho.<br />
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The town for the State House and new Capital was named Fillmore and it was in Millard County. The names were given the area after the US President Millard Fillmore.<br />
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Truman O. Angell the architect for the Salt Lake Temple was to design and plan for a grand State House which he did however the first wing of that State House was all that was ever built.<br />
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That building was used for only 3 sessions of the State Legislature from the years 1855 to 1858, and that was all. It was decided that the area was developing too slowly and it was just too far from the center of activity which was in Valley of the Great Salt Lake.<br />
<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361685086130036786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQxZNQBI87ySLnM27w5TwbF5emKnvkkOD_fds5fa5punC-pH-lmHuY_G7Vw2wfndFuUDQZlK48zeKmd1PpzgzfkyslQjj3o8sTC6foaV0TgV7ktl7o1XWL49IR6J7_9M6vJeGWyGjA46w/s400/000_0045.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /> <br />
<div align="center"><span style="color: #cc6600; font-size: 78%;">They had dances here also, of course they called them balls!<br />
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</div><div align="left">So the capital moved to Salt Lake City. <br />
</div><div align="left">But the building in Fillmore has been restored and is now a Utah State Museum. It houses a large collection of pioneer artifacts and furniture and other interesting objects from the history of the area. There is also a great collection of photographs of the early settlers and leaders. <br />
</div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361685073640522530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1CwNhS2_llC7EfNu8Kp5ltdFmekAarfj794Gg9XfrQHnYXtxgKtBP9iQtOvc-euiWeABJDabhq4zCaUqT0Hs-cro5JDDOxcq5Pc_QereOvitUzdWqeZfAiPVuiRa2mQFKENhyBIela_o/s400/000_0041.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361685083063928546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-8181DunouCsHgFjplmY85SREEtX6XLkvsOpRQmmfLyXWxtdlbrPmxOr0ikwroR_60DvopLNG50G5hayI22E43RnQBr4bfHxePga-XtkKUKcm-TRTJnDT3zPHltCGlZpvpP686KfdzF8/s400/000_0042.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><br />
The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It sits in a very nice park like setting and there are also some other building on the site from that era.<br />
<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361686960169909058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwbNeWKvJle7szb4mlAZfaina57ZbaWYlVBDzrUKKo7lnBFGZ-QCmvW_U5JIV1n-J4-fmPw3CWoUvsIW58kGN5MMvzvXljoWBlQQtYwcq-jSLKGVMvK6_JLPnwJHYb8i-mure6vr2SySE/s400/000_0048.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><br />
There is a school house that was one of the first schools in the area and some log cabins are there to see also.<br />
<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361686972725152914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA0v7gx2T42Up0Qh8Ri0QpMRiZNIRytgB9X1qdm8GnxnNzyxOonYdEehXXEe_YRf3Evxan1OTfhLjO1lN5-CcP9pC65uKH-2tT3-O8CqeRt3nojhkR_eew3zofOCKpv6ID3LFwMCLBXVc/s400/000_0052.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 290px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361686978116054674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlo8-XzuaeEltb3Q5Hnjc7dNN5q6zGlLWxvXy-dC4Ey7x7oyC40dBA4md_KWv568Pq2cLsZDeByTLyYwbF-I4SKCYmwB6gWXOcSCypAK8vmD-NzbIpidDA9Btcahh4ZHYM9soiTn65cAQ/s400/000_0050.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 265px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><br />
If you are traveling either north or south on I-15 it is a nice diversion to stop and take a step back into the history of this State of Utah.<br />
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There are two exits from the freeway one on each end of town. It is also a pleasant drive to just take the road from one end of town to the other.<br />
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<div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #cc6600;">I LOVE TO DRIVE! (and sightsee)<br />
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</div><strong></strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824341997848369085.post-44162412283243057262009-06-15T18:41:00.001-07:002009-12-03T08:08:01.786-08:00Geneva Steel Mill<div align="left">A drive through Utah County in my childhood always presented some interesting landmarks.<br />
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One of the things I remember vividly were the pea viners that would be brought in to help with the harvest of peas.<br />
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<div align="center"></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350174901889153234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmRn5qrMUMAsg9fNFWn784mJ8BHd4ezh3Z0T10HqQRo7yHJaavNv7gyXwXLASYkQXnbofdk4lqJL9w3rNAG4qwu1GQXfejh9h1k3IOZ5S-h3u8muQmZSLdRP-yzxVIHnR0RbZOWRiFJx4/s400/about_1.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 203px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 290px;" /><br />
<div align="center"><span style="color: #cc6600; font-size: 78%;">Now days they are on wheels</span> <br />
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<div align="left">In those years there were a lot of peas raised in Utah County in addition to Sugar Beets. In the early part of summer they would bring in these big harvesters to help with the peas and they would park them on the side of the fields because they were not on wheels and mobile and then they would strip the pea vines from the fields and feed them through the pea viners and out would come the peas all ready to use.<br />
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<div align="center"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350177289314845378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigkbv8iy2TandY3LJ7qNkxkpn1orX66_oY6sVOXe7diJYQkNEl4wtt0cHdt8zLjwIhXrkNV0vV1QBiaOB6UwLigq1We70AZutYI7fSr5MvIEAHlixn7-zrbUFzDPE5dMUaaYyCHda7K5k/s400/pro_sugar_beet.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 212px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 292px;" /> <span style="color: #cc6600; font-size: 78%;">Sugar Beet Harvesters we used to pull</span><br />
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<div align="left">The other thing that was always there was Geneva Steel. Even when there was no freeway and we drove on highway 89/91 Geneva was still visible. Once the freeway was finished and in use Geneva became even more prominent as a landmark.<br />
</div>Back in 1941 the second world war was raging in Europe and also in Asia and the islands of the Pacific going south from Japan. Someone must have thought we would be engaged in the war because the government decided we needed another steel mill farther inland in case of an invasion like from the Japanese. About that same time the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.<br />
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That prompted the building a steel mill in Utah Valley right there in the little town of Vineyard. Construction went from November 1941 to December 1944 and with it's completion it was the largest and the only full service steel mill west of the Mississippi and it was put into operation.<br />
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<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350178410366622786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVf_m-i_oEyETAF1OndjabvwlNqUs6XORdhQ46sgzKjgKdF0Moe9Z0cdxZKBQSOmARPF8_Z_xLNXhsDGZTuWb_nHPzF4p709u8ah2RwNihQcnAgNXhjTZRbvatZMdQPAWR40o83J4Jdck/s400/Geneva+5.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 306px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 302px;" /> <br />
<div align="center"><span style="color: #cc6600;"><span style="font-size: 78%;">Geneva being constructed</span></span><span style="color: #cc6600;"><br />
</span><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350178402095806418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZKSAM1rlYfmkhH_ThagKotl26IHCACMAEMRNOk6kRqNnPc0jO5a1bK4_aPHDHFOYK-S3lYJccbJ9qTfHYLNDkNiVYp8z4FgYuwHTyJ1sS7FSWCirkz3BKDVR0tN1TITnUx55lOZlDs-g/s400/Geneva+3.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 299px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 391px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350178398568115026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVDvF2eCFfUEd0vrs_520vJmT8wnoQ6kJA773dttaEo1aT_w5h0yNgI-knHVxP_SIbiJlHV6PDTBLErB2aBZGGZbj-lhnX20FCVmwWa3TagRLeVJpKQg2hAnO9x-68v6aecjKzRduXcwA/s400/Geneva+2.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 306px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><br />
</div>This Utah Valley area was chosen because of being somewhat inland and harder to attack but also because of the close proximity to needed resources such as coal, iron ore, a closeness to good rail connections, those elements were needed to make it a viable operation.<br />
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The name Geneva was taken from a swimming resort that used to be on Utah Lake right close to the site of the steel mill. The Geneva Resort was said to be the nicest resort in the area and used to draw good crowds in the days when it existed.<br />
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Now it's all gone! Both the Resort and the Steel Mill.<br />
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<div align="center"><span style="color: #cc6600; font-size: 78%;">The Building with the Furnaces used to sit right here!</span><br />
</div><div align="center"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350183314093381122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiekwAlqoSKjhMTsVP4Y5le4UDMoPw_GfB08KpLHfVMovFlyzvdztWlxqqS9P4vOnEKkjMgiwsOBzIy8yWP0vZnuL7GHJIQZ4IPRyYY364MMgM5-1axKPVs7I0MBCWTWYD3k2f68nQfeOg/s400/West+side+of+Geneva+Site.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /> <span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="color: #cc6600;">The right side of the tracks was all buildings and the new front runner track will be on the left side</span></span><br />
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<div align="center"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350184782380854642" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQMNlDvWUDBvnvnbE_TmYUYA9SD60f5305CeCexki6CFfK5zvfQ6eq7OkDq3e_6zxjUtoNdDBdbFYMk3VULe2OukcZINIv256Ki6E3qR6o4e0Z3YEi6hBAnLK26_DlMnJyDS8q88mdH34/s400/Geneva+leftovers.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /> <span style="color: #cc6600; font-size: 78%;">This is all that is left and I think they are processing slag!</span><br />
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<div align="left">Because of problems and competition in the industry Geneva had problems and in 1991 operations ceased and then went into bankruptcy and then the plant was sold off through the bankruptcy court. The land has been bought and development and clean up are still in process.<br />
</div><div align="left">The face of the area has changed greatly and that landmark that could be seen from the freeway is just an empty field. <br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824341997848369085.post-4855345433120784262009-06-10T12:27:00.000-07:002010-11-25T08:51:39.891-08:00Camp Floyd and moreTuesday was a beautiful day, scattered clouds with intermittent rain showers and sunshine kept the temperature in a very nice range, cool but not enough to require a jacket.<br />
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<div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></div><div>Because it was such a nice day I decided to take a drive out west to Fairfield and just look around for a little while. <br />
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I was out in Fairfield last week but at the time I was there were several bus loads of school kids there also. They had come to see the sites like the old Fairfield Schoolhouse and the Stagecoach Inn and such. Because of the confusion I did not do much last week so I went back to get some more pictures.</div><div></div><div>The Fairfield Schoolhouse is interesting. It is a very typical one room schoolhouse that was built in 1898 to educate the children in the area.<br />
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<div></div>Somewhere I read or heard that the building of the schoolhouse had some involvement with Utah becoming a state, but not sure where.</div><br />
<div>I am not sure how many kids there was in the area back in 1898 but I don't think it would have been a great number as Camp Floyd or Fort Crittenden as it was later called, was long gone by that time. </div><br />
<div>The building is rather neat and they have a number of activities that take place at the old school, like weddings, a Valentines Day dance, etc.</div></div><br />
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<div>Along about 1856-1857 there were many rumors about a Mormon uprising that were circulating aroung Washington D.C. The Mormons had been driven out of the East by the persecution they had endured and they went west finally settling in the Great Salt Lake Basin in 1847.<br />
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<div>Then 10 years later there were rumors of a Mormon uprising in the West. </div><br />
<div>President Buchanan sent an army detachment of 3500 men under the command of Gen. Albert S. Johnston to quell the rebellion. A detachment of that size represented nearly one third of the US Army at that time. </div><br />
<div>When the army arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley in June of 1858 they found no rebellion or anything close to it and so they went south and west of Salt Lake City to Cedar Valley to set up camp. They found a spring fed stream and set up camp on the south side of the stream, Fairfield was on the north side of the stream. </div><br />
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<div>They picked their spot and then proceeded to build a camp and by November of 1858 they had constructed 400 buildings. The construction was of adobe because there was very little lumber to be had.</div><br />
<div></div><div>At that time Camp Floyd, as it was named for Secretary of War John B. Floyd, was the largest single concentration of troops in the United States. </div><br />
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<div>But then in addition to the army there were roughly 3500 camp followers who moved to Fairfield. People like gamblers, saloon keepers, ladies of the night, etc., those who follow the army camps. </div><br />
<div></div><div>Fairfield became the third largest city in the state, of course Utah was not a state at that time. Fairfield was the third largest city in the Territory. Another modification though, Fairfield was Frogtown at that time. When it was first settled in 1855 by the Carson brothers it was named Frogtown and the name didn't change until after Johnston's Army left in 1861 when the Army was recalled to the East because of the outbreak of the Civil War. </div><br />
<div>With no rebellion that left the army with just routine garrison duty and protecting stagecoach and Pony Express routes. </div><br />
<div>Secretary of War Floyd resigned in December of 1860 because he was a southern supporter and Camp Floyd was renamed Fort Crittenden.</div><br />
<div>However, Fort Crittenden was abandoned in July of 1861. The buildings and equipment were sold, destroyed, abandoned or carted off for building materials. Within two months after the Army's leaving only 18 families remained in Fairfield. </div><br />
<div>The street in front of the Stagecoach Inn was once called saloon street and there were 17 Saloons along that street.</div><div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345805608900232770" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Sx2fTshfhTCi1dTEHoqNBD0R8vdPTEE-EGYO4gzWdYM5Oix8VJ3J9CMcnS_t7gxmxImnDR8JqA4mJfgIJTZuAihuKpRDwG27TmCQYIvwCk4R2ykW-EcAM8FX07X69zZErmU9_ZWUkUs/s400/Stagecoach+Inn.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 266px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></div><br />
<div>The Stagecoach Inn is still there and has been restored. The Pony Express operated from April 1860 to October 1861 and the route went through Fairfield and the Stagecoach Inn was a stop for the riders<br />
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<div>The Old Camp Floyd Cemetary is still there also. <br />
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</div><div>There are 84 headstones in the cemetary at present but I was told that after the army left in the years following many of the soldiers who were buried there were taken up by their families and moved to where the families were from.</div><div><br />
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