Cedar City (Iron County, Utah)--Buildings; Dwellings
"This house was built by Welch immigrant, Edward Parry, who had crossed the plains with the Stevens hand-cart company and had been sent to Cedar City to assist the efforts of the Deseret Iron Company. A fine, two-story structure, the home had a...
Cedar City (Iron County, Utah)--Buildings; Business; Hotels
El Rey Motel postcard, back reads "The newest and finest motel in the scenic state of Utah. Spacious lobby with fireplace. 35 beautiful rooms with telephone and free radio in every room. Excellent cafe in connection.
Then the floor was cleared for a step dance and a stump speech. Once in a while a waltz was indulged in to the melodies of Ileena Lanna, My Irish Rose, or Home Sweet Home. However the round dance was generally discouraged by Church...
monuments, of different shapes and sizes, ranging from flat markers to shafts 10 to 12 feet high. He also received orders and shipped many stones to the surrounding towns.
Mr. Boyter operated the marble works until 1912. His son, Henry K. Boyter,...
THE SCHOOLS OF BEAVER
SCHOOL HOUSE BUILT FIRST YEAR
In writing this history of the early schools of Beaver, we have interviewed the few remaining pupils of those days; have had access to a few old letters and diaries, and some short articles...
few blue-backed spelling books and McGuffey's Readers. Often there was only one book to a room, so it would be passed around from one pupil to another. Slates and slate pencils were scarce, notebooks and lead pencils were unknown. One woman who...
CHAPTER TWELVE HISTORICAL BUILDINGS OF BEAVER LAND MARKS Old landmarks of our community, like our old inhabitants, are fast disappearing. Old landmarks, for the pur-pose of this article, include public buildings and sites once of prominence and...
Old Irontown (Iron County, Utah); Dwellings--Dixie National Forest (Utah)
Ruins of dwellings at Irontown. Note the fireplace and remaining "plaster" on the interior. A rank growth of sagebrush is brying to cover this old home, while junipers stand guard nearby.
HOMER DUNCAN Biography 1815 - 1906 Homer ~ " n c a n was born January 1 9 , 1815, to John Duncan and Betsy Taylor Putnam in Barnet, Caledonia County. Vermont. In 1841. he married Asenath M . Banker in New York State, by whom he had thirteen...
July 2 1 , 1 9 1 3 . . .Tax levy of 22 mills was adopted. Committee appointed to investigate Barnhurst s p r i n g near Five Lakes, reported that the water r u n s from the Spring into the Creek in Right Hand Canyon across what is known as Coke...
manufacture of iron. Drama, for which Cedar has now become nationally known, was a favorite interest and avocation of the townspeople from the earliest days. Amusements, recreations of various kinds, and celebrations of important events livened up...
On Sunday, May 15, 1853, Henry counseled the settlers not to scatter out on the city lots, to strengthen the fort and make it secure, to lock the gates every night and to have their guns and ammunition on hand. He recommended that the brethren...
What little was eamed in the way of cash was promptly used to purchase consumer goods, pay the transportation of immigrants, and buy supplies and equipment for farms and shops. There was a real scarcity of money i Utah. The task of the tithing...
attracted many visitors, prospectors and mining officials who traveled n through Cedar City. The mine was located i a ndge of broken mountains near Leeds and came into existence in the 1870's, &er silver had been discovered in a sandstone ledge....
probably drove the cows aiong with them. Heaton commented that "the eight miles seerned like 800 on that old rough wagon going up that canyon." Sarah and her children were constantly on the lookout for Indians in view of what had happened to the...
Cedar hIountain at n place called Jones Hollow. They set u p residence and spent much of their time there, as long as the weather would permit. At the same time, they were homesteading a farm in the Cedar City Valley, traveling back and forth....