Hatton, formerly Petersburg, is an

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and near-

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Millard County Millard County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 12,503. Its county seat is Fillmore, and the largest city is Delta. History The Utah Territory legislature created the county on ...

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, United States. It lies at an elevation of .

History

In 1859, Peter Robison and Peter Boyce from

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and other settlers from nearby settled where the

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crossed Corn Creek, three miles northwest of

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Pahvant Pahvant (''Pavant, Parant, Pahva-nits'') was a band of Ute people that lived in present-day Utah. Called the "Water People", they fished and hunted waterfowl. They were also farmers and hunter-gatherers. In the 18th century they were known to be f ...

village on the creek and downstream from the

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. The settlement was sometimes called Lower Corn Creek but was named Petersburg for Peter Robison, later its first postmaster. Boyce succeeded

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as Indian agent at Corn Creek, appointed by

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. Petersburg was one of the larger stations and rest stops on the Gilmer and Salisbury Stage Company line from the Utah Southern Railroad rail-head in Juab County to the mining boom town of

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from 1864 to 1871. Between 1867 and 1869, most of its inhabitants moved upstream to build the town of

at the original Pahvant village site. In 1869, the Petersburg schoolhouse was moved and reconstructed at Kanosh. From 1877 to 1940, Petersburg, now a small agricultural settlement, was renamed and had a post office called Hatton.Edward Leo Lyman, Linda King Newell, A History Of Millard County, Utah State Historical Society, Millard County Commission, 1999
/ref>John W. Van Cott, Utah Place Names: A Comprehensive Guide to the Origins of Geographic Names: a Compilation, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 1990.

The Site today

This settlement is now almost a

, with little to see of its past existence among the irrigated fields along Hatton Lane. There are however several occupied homes at the town site.

References

{{Millard County, Utah Ghost towns in Utah Populated places established in 1859 Ghost towns in Millard County, Utah Mormon Road Great Basin National Heritage Area