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Hamblin, Utah
Hamblin, now a ghost town, was a Mormon pioneer town along the Mormon Road, from 1856 to 1905. It was located at an elevation of 5,832 feet in Mountain Meadow in western Washington County, Utah, United States. History Jacob Hamblin started a ranch and built a house for his family in 1856 overlooking Mountain Meadow soon after the building of the 1855 Leach Cutoff of the Mormon Road, a wagon road that passed from Mountain Meadow to Pinto, through Leach Canyon to Cedar City was built nearby. This saved 15 miles from the older route from Cedar City through Iron Springs, Antelope Springs, Pinto Creek (at modern Newcastle, Utah), to the north end of Mountain Meadow, in Holt Canyon. Other settlers soon came to ranch or farm, forming a settlement with homes that were built along a street with the church and school at the far end. It was called Fort Hamblin, later shortened to Hamblin. Drinking water for the town came from Hamblin Spring, a clear spring near the village at . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Town
Ghost Town(s) or Ghosttown may refer to: * Ghost town, a town that has been abandoned Film and television * Ghost Town (1936 film), ''Ghost Town'' (1936 film), an American Western film by Harry L. Fraser * Ghost Town (1956 film), ''Ghost Town'' (1956 film), an American Western film by Allen H. Miner * Ghost Town (1988 film), ''Ghost Town'' (1988 film), an American horror film by Richard McCarthy (as Richard Governor) * Ghost Town (2008 film), ''Ghost Town'' (2008 film), an American fantasy comedy film by David Koepp * ''Ghost Town'', a 2008 TV film featuring Billy Drago * ''Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns'', a 2005–2006 British paranormal reality television series * Ghost Town (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), "Ghost Town" (''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''), a 2009 TV episode Literature * Ghost Town (Lucky Luke), ''Ghost Town'' (''Lucky Luke'') or ''La Ville fantôme'', a 1965 ''Lucky Luke'' comic *''Ghost Town'', a Beacon Street Girls novel by Annie Bryant *''Ghost Town'', a 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leach Canyon
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Leach may refer to: * Leach (surname) * Leach, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community, United States * Leach, Tennessee, an unincorporated community, United States * Leach Highway, Western Australia * Leach orchid * Leach phenotype, a mutation in the gene encoding Glycophorin C * Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH), a routing protocol in wireless sensor networks * "Leach", a song by Cryptopsy off their album ''The Unspoken King'' * River Leach, England, United Kingdom * Leach Range, a mountain range in Elko County, Nevada * Leach (food), jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the 1600s See also * Leach field, or septic drain field * Leaching (other) * Leech (other) Leeches are segmented parasitic or predatory Annelid worms. Leech may also refer to: Film and television * '' The Leech (1921 film)'' * ''The Leech (1956 film)'' * '' Leeches!'', a 2003 film * Leech (''Masters of the Universe''), a character fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamblin Cemetery
Hamblin may refer to: People *Hamblin (surname) *Thomas Sowerby Hamblin, British actor and theatre manager *Henry Thomas Hamblin, British author *Robert W. Hamblin, professor and author *Hamblin González, Nicaraguan cyclist Places *Hamblin, Utah *Hamblin Bay, in Lake Mead See also *Lee–Hamblin family The Lee–Hamblin family is a political family rooted in the American West. It is intertwined closely with the Udall family, and most, though not all the notable Lees are also Udall descendants. John D. Lee is also a direct descendant of Richard ... * Hamlin (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enterprise, Utah
Enterprise is a rural farming community in northwestern Washington County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,711 at the 2010 census. Enterprise is home to two schools, Enterprise Elementary School (K-6) and Enterprise High School (7-12). Activities Enterprise is known for hosting an annual Cornfest where the town and neighboring communities celebrate the harvest of local farmers in late August. Cornfest has been a tradition in Enterprise since 1990. The small town boasts of its freshly grown corn available at the festival and along Main Street. There is also a vintage car show, live entertainment and dancing, festival food, various shopping booths, and more. Several lakes near Enterprise where residents and nonresidents enjoy boating, fishing, and swimming. The mountains include ATVs and hiking trails. Enterprise is also known for having great camping and hunting grounds. Geography Enterprise is located on the south rim of the Great Basin, at an elevation of . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanab, Utah
Kanab ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Kane County, Utah, United States.Find a County ". ''National Association of Counties''. Retrieved June 7, 2011. It is located on just north of the state line. This area was first settled in 1864, and the town was founded in 1870 when ten families moved into the area. Named for a word meaning "place of the willows, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigham Young
Brigham Young (; June 1, 1801August 29, 1877) was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second President of the Church (LDS Church), president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), from 1847 until his death in 1877. During his time as church president, Young led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, west from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Salt Lake Valley. He founded Salt Lake City and served as the first governor of the Utah Territory. Young also worked to establish the learning institutions which would later become the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. A Polygamy and the Latter Day Saint movement, polygamist, Young had at least 56 wives and 57 children. He Black people and Mormon priesthood, instituted a ban prohibiting conferring the Black people and early Mormonism, priesthood on men of black African descent, and led the church in the Utah War against the United States Armed Forces, United States. Early life Young was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osage language, a Dhegiha Siouan language, and referred to their relatives, the Quapaw people. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta. Arkansas is the 29th largest by area and the 34th most populous state, with a population of just over 3 million at the 2020 census. The capital and most populous city is Little Rock, in the central part of the state, a hub for transportation, business, culture, and government. The northwestern corner of the state, including the Fayetteville–Springdaleâ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain Meadows Massacre
The Mountain Meadows Massacre (September 7–11, 1857) was a series of attacks during the Utah War that resulted in the mass murder of at least 120 members of the Baker–Fancher party, Baker–Fancher emigrant wagon train. The massacre occurred in the southern Utah Territory at Mountain Meadows, Utah, Mountain Meadows, and was perpetrated by the Mormon settlers belonging to the Utah Territorial Militia (officially called the Nauvoo Legion) who recruited and were aided by some Southern Paiute people, Southern Paiute Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans. The wagon train, made up mostly of families from Arkansas, was bound for California, traveling on the Old Spanish Trail (trade route), Old Spanish Trail that passed through the Territory. After arriving in Salt Lake City, the Baker–Fancher party made their way south along the Mormon Road, eventually stopping to rest at Mountain Meadows. As the party was traveling west there were rumors about the party's beh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamblin Spring
Hamblin may refer to: People *Hamblin (surname) *Thomas Sowerby Hamblin, British actor and theatre manager *Henry Thomas Hamblin, British author *Robert W. Hamblin, professor and author *Hamblin González, Nicaraguan cyclist Places *Hamblin, Utah *Hamblin Bay, in Lake Mead See also *Lee–Hamblin family The Lee–Hamblin family is a political family rooted in the American West. It is intertwined closely with the Udall family, and most, though not all the notable Lees are also Udall descendants. John D. Lee is also a direct descendant of Richard ... * Hamlin (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holt Canyon
Holt Canyon, originally called Meadow Canyon or Meadow Valley, is a valley in Washington County, Utah. Its mouth lies at an elevation of eaters where it enters the Escalante Valley. Its head lies at an elevation of 5,600 feet at west of the site of the ghost town of Hamblin, Utah (1856 to 1905). History Meadow Canyon was the northern part of the long well watered meadow with excellent grazing, called Mountain Meadow that was used by the merchants and drovers on the Old Spanish Trail and later by travelers on the wagon road that followed the older trail, called the Mormon Road. Later the canyon was renamed Holt Canyon after James Holt, who came in 1867 to visit his brother-in-law, a settler of Hamblin, Utah Hamblin, now a ghost town, was a Mormon pioneer town along the Mormon Road, from 1856 to 1905. It was located at an elevation of 5,832 feet in Mountain Meadow in western Washington County, Utah, United States. History Jacob Hamblin started a ra .... He subsequently took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newcastle, Utah
Newcastle (also New Castle) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in southwestern Iron County, Utah, Iron County, Utah, United States. It lies along Utah State Route 56, State Route 56, west of Cedar City, Utah, Cedar City. Its elevation is above sea level. Newcastle has a post office with the ZIP code of 84756. The population was 247 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. Newcastle was founded in 1910 by citizens of the more isolated Pinto, Utah, Pinto. The predominant religion is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which church's members settled the area. Newcastle is a small farming community which has a dairy, orchard, greenhouses producing house plants and tomatoes, and several fields. Crops produced include wheat, oats, alfalfa, corn and potatoes. Demographics The 2010 census reported 247 people and 92 housing units in the CDP. The 2010 census reported Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, racial makeup was 88.7% W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinto Creek (Iron County, Utah)
Pinto Creek may refer to: * Pinto Creek (Arizona), a tributary of the Salt River in Gila County, Arizona * Pinto Creek (Texas), a tributary to the Rio Grande in Kinney County, Texas * Rural Municipality of Pinto Creek No. 75, a municipality in Saskatchewan, Canada {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
