Aerial photographs--Iron County (Utah); Cedar City (Iron County, Utah); Buildings
Photo taken from belfry of the Tabernacle looking west. Twin Pines and George Perry barns in foreground. Old Hyrum Jones (later John Higbee) home next. Barn on left is either Jim Corlett's or Gus Mackleprang's. Cupola on Robert Bulloch's home...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
Parents who can do so are especially invited to come and live with their children at the school and partake of the same privilege of free rent offered to students. Children not of high school age may be provided for in the Beaver county school and...
fence in the center of block 29, just east of where the telephone office now stands. The bullet cut the emigrant's leather belt, yet he stopped long enough to pick up his pistol. A few minutes later, William Anderson saw Sissix elevate his gun and...
York Volunteer Infantry, who was killed in the battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861.
Before the summer had passed, contracts had been let to a number of men for the construction of four company barracks, a guard house, commissary, hospital and...
This additional spread of water over greater acreage caused more bottom land to sub-irrigate and added much to our rich meadow acreage. And, in turn, most of the water springs up in our lower fields and communities and is reclaimed through natural...
school hours it is made available to the citizens who wish to do work there for themselves.
Perhaps no department of the school has done more for the town than has the Music department, with its excellent band and choruses, under such able...
sides. A driveway went all around it. On the north were two buildings. The smaller one, which had been the soldiers' commissary,.was made into a book store. To the east of this was a large, two-story structure with upper and lower verandas on all...
CHAPTER THIRTEEN GREENVILLE-ITS FOUNDING AND HISTORY SETTLED IN 1860 Greenville, a small town located some five miles southwest of Beaver, was settled in 1860 by a group of people from Parowan and Cedar City. As early as 1857, however, these...
An act prescribing certain qualifications necessary to enable a person to hold office was approved. Regular elections were held in August and election precincts were established. A mining company, composed of Isaac Grundy and others, was granted...
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
MINERSVILLE-ITS FOUNDING AND HISTORY
Imagine, if you 'can, coming -down* the canyon and viewing this valley prior to its settlement. The river fol-lowed much the same course as it does today, with a few scattered cottonwood trees to...
the ground. The washouts were repaired, and the ditch is in use today.
About three-fourths of a mile southwest of the intake, Nelson Hollingshead built a grist mill, which he and Charles Burke operated until 1900, when it was moved to the Ernest...
of Cedar City. His route was through Minersville Can-yon. He left Milford at 9 a. m., arriving at Johnson's Fork at 5 p.m. He was employed by Gilmore & Salisbury, mail contractors for the western part of Beaver County. Later Mr. Root moved to...
the Beaver river to reach the mill. One ford was at Horseshoe Bend, two miles south of town near the present Bill Baker ranch, and the other was east of Yellow Banks, about two miles north of town. Freighters, traveling laboriously with their heavy...