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Mormon Road
Mormon Road, also known to the 49ers as the Southern Route, of the California Trail in the Western United States, was a seasonal wagon road pioneered by a Mormon party from Salt Lake City, Utah led by Jefferson Hunt, that followed the route of Spanish explorers and the Old Spanish Trail across southwestern Utah, northwestern Arizona, southern Nevada and the Mojave Desert of California to Los Angeles in 1847. From 1855, it became a military and commercial wagon route between California and Utah, called the Los Angeles – Salt Lake Road. In later decades this route was variously called the "Old Mormon Road", the "Old Southern Road", or the "Immigrant Road" in California. In Utah, Arizona and Nevada it was known as the "California Road". Mormon Road 1847–1855 Jefferson Hunt and Mormon Veterans Expeditions 1847–1848 The wagon road later called the "Mormon Road" was pioneered by a Mormon party with pack horses, led by Jefferson Hunt, intent on obtaining supplies for the stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roadometer (odometer)
The roadometer was a 19th-century device like an odometer for measuring mileage, mounted on a wagon wheel. One such device was invented in 1847 by William Clayton, Orson Pratt, and Appleton Harmon, pioneers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. History Brass odometers were used by many pioneers making the westward trek in the 1840s. However, the design of Clayton, Pratt, and Harmon's odometer was new. In 1847, William Clayton accompanied the first expedition to the Utah Territory as a writer and record-keeper. He initially counted revolutions of a wagon wheel to calculate the distance they had travelled. He tired of counting wheel revolutions and wanted a device that could measure the distanced a wagon travelled. It is possible he was familiar with the English viometers that measured distance using gears. Clayton asked Orson Pratt if it would be possible to make such a device, and Pratt created the design. Harmon carved the gears out of wood and may have further re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nephi, Utah
Nephi ( ) is a city in Juab County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Provo–Orem metropolitan area. The population was 6,443 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Juab County. It was settled by Mormon pioneers in 1851 as Salt Creek, and it acquired its current name in 1882. It is the principal city in the Juab Valley, an agricultural area. Nephi was named after Nephi, son of Lehi, from the Book of Mormon. History Before the area was settled, the site along Salt Creek was first a camping place along the Old Mormon Road to Southern California. Mormon settlers established a settlement at the site in 1851, naming it after the creek. It retained that name until 1882 when the town and its post office became Nephi. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corn Creek Indian Farm
Corn Creek Indian Farm was a farm established in 1855 for the Pahvant Utes on Corn Creek in Millard County, Utah. It was located just downstream from the Pahvant village of Kanosh. It was abandoned in 1867. History The Pahvants were already farming at their village on Corn Creek before the Mormons began settling in the Pahvant Valley. As early as 1851 when Fillmore was established 12 miles north of his village, Kanosh expressed a desire to learn the Mormon's methods of farming. Governor Brigham Young, as ex-official Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Utah Territory, and Garland Hurt the federal Indian Agent for Utah, established three of these farms in Utah including the one at Corn Creek as early as 1854. The other two were at Sanpete and Spanish Fork. 30 tribesmen worked on them under the supervision of an American farmer, sometimes helped by Mormon neighbors to plow the fields, however despite all the work done they had little success due to the ravages of insects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corn Creek (Millard County)
Corn Creek, also called Kanosh Creek, is a stream in Millard County, Utah. Its mouth is located in the Pahvant Valley. Its source is at the confluence of East Fork Corn Creek and West Fork Corn Creek in the Pahvant Range. History The location near the mouth of Corn Creek was originally a stopping place known as ''Willow Flats'' for the early travelers on the Mormon Road. Road distances from readings of roadometer attached to the wagon of Addison Pratt of the 1849 Jefferson Hunt Wagon Train. On January 17, 1851, George A. Smith, leader of Mormon colonists who were on their way to establish the colony at Parowan, wrote about Willow Flat to Brigham Young, that the area was, "... a prospect for a colony not to be slighted... Corn Creek sinks and forms a large meadow. The grazing is extensive; the range very good... the soil had the appearance of being very good... it seemed to suit many farmers of our camp, who would have been perfectly satisfied to have remained at that point." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chalk Creek
Chalk Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 31, 2011 river flowing east from the Collegiate Peaks mountain range in Chaffee County, Colorado. Mount Antero borders the southern side of the river, while Mount Princeton borders the northern side. The headwaters of the river are located at the Continental Divide. The river empties into the Arkansas River at the town of Nathrop, Colorado. The river is named after the magnificent white kaolinite cliffs that stand at the entrance to the Chalk Creek valley, and are a result of hot spring deposits. These white cliffs are visible for miles in all directions, and stand in stark contrast to the otherwise wooded surrounding mountains. Stands of aspen trees and evergreens of various species surround the river for its entire length. The river is surrounded by a mix of privately owned and US forest service land. Campgrounds and public trails, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meadow, Utah
Meadow is a town in Millard County, Utah, United States. The population was 254 at the 2000 census. Originally called Meadow Creek, the town is located about eight miles south of Fillmore. History From 1847, Meadow Creek was considered a good camp site on the Mormon Road to Southern California. Meadow Creek was the site where Walkara died in 1855. The town of Meadow Creek was settled in 1857 by ten Latter-day Saint families from Fillmore, Utah. The name of the town was changed to Meadow when it acquired its post office in 1864. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.5 square miles (1.3 km2), all land. Climate This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Meadow has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. Demographics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meadow Creek (Millard County)
Meadow Creek is a stream in Millard County, Utah. It was originally known as 4th Creek south of Sevier River to the early travelers on the Mormon Road.LeRoy Reuben Hafen, Ann Woodbury Hafen, Journals of Forty-niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles: with Diaries and Contemporary Records of Sheldon Young, James S. Brown, Jacob Y. Stover, Charles C. Rich, Addison Pratt, Howard Egan, Henry W. Bigler, and Others, U of Nebraska Press, 1954, pp.321-324 Mormon Waybill, Joseph Cain and A. C. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fillmore, Utah
Fillmore is a city and the county seat of Millard County, Utah, United States. The population was 2,435 at the 2010 United States Census. It is named for the thirteenth President of the United States, US President Millard Fillmore, who was in office when Millard County was created by the Utah Territorial legislature. Fillmore was the Capital city, capital of the Utah Territory from 1851 to 1856, although the territorial legislature met in Fillmore only one term (1855). The original Utah Territorial Statehouse building still stands. History 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chalk Creek (Millard County, Utah)
Chalk Creek is a stream in Millard County, Utah, United States. Description It was originally known as 3rd Creek south of Sevier River to the early travelers on the Mormon Road.LeRoy Reuben Hafen, Ann Woodbury Hafen, Journals of Forty-niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles: with Diaries and Contemporary Records of Sheldon Young, James S. Brown, Jacob Y. Stover, Charles C. Rich, Addison Pratt, Howard Egan, Henry W. Bigler, and Others, U of Nebraska Press, 1954, pp.321-324 Mormon Wayb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holden, Utah
Holden is a town in Millard County, Utah, United States. The population was 378 at the 2010 census. History Holden was settled in 1855 by a group of ten families sent out by the bishop of the local congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Fillmore. Named Cedar Springs for the springs in the junipers that the community was built around. The town then assumed the name Buttermilk Fort because travelers passing through were encouraged to stop for a glass of cold buttermilk while resting. The town got its post office in 1864, and the town was renamed for Elijah E. Holden, a member of the Mormon Battalion who was one of the first settlers of Holden and died while caught in a snowstorm in 1858. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Goose Creek (Utah)
Wild Goose Creek, originally known as Cedar Creek to the early travelers on the Mormon Road, is a stream, in Millard County, Utah.LeRoy Reuben Hafen, Ann Woodbury Hafen, Journals of Forty-niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles: with Diaries and Contemporary Records of Sheldon Young, James S. Brown, Jacob Y. Stover, Charles C. Rich, Addison Pratt, Howard Egan, Henry W. Bigler, and Others, U of Nebraska Press, 1954, pp.321-324, Mormon Waybill, Joseph Cain and A. C. Brower, Salt Lake Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sevier River
The Sevier River (pronounced "severe") is a -long river in the Great Basin of southwestern Utah in the United States. Originating west of Bryce Canyon National Park, the river flows north through a chain of high farming valleys and steep canyons along the west side of the Sevier Plateau before turning southwest and terminating in the endorheic basin of Sevier Lake in the Sevier Desert. It is used extensively for irrigation along its course, with the consequence that Sevier Lake is usually dry. The Sevier River drainage basin of covers more than 13 percent of Utah and includes parts of ten counties, of which the river flows through seven. The name of the river is derived from the Spanish ''Río Severo'', "violent river". The Sevier is the longest river entirely within the state of Utah. Course The Sevier River is formed by the confluence of Minnie Creek and Tyler Creek in Long Valley in Kane County. The headwaters are at an elevation of between the Markagunt Plateau (on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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