Hatton, formerly Petersburg, is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
and near-
ghost town
A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economi ...
in
Millard County,
Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...
, United States. It lies at an elevation of .
History
In 1859, Peter Robison and Peter Boyce from
Fillmore and other settlers from nearby settled where the
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 S ...
crossed
Corn Creek, three miles northwest of
Kanosh's
Pahvant
The Pahvant or Pahvants (''Pavant, Parant, Pahva-nits'') were 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 w ...
village on the creek and downstream from the
Corn Creek Indian Farm
Corn Creek Indian Farm was a farm established in 1855 for the Pahvant Utes on Corn Creek (Millard County), Corn Creek in Millard County, Utah. It was located just downstream from the Pahvant village of Kanosh (chief), Kanosh. It was abandoned in ...
. The settlement was sometimes called Lower Corn Creek but was named Petersburg for Peter Robison, later its first postmaster. Boyce succeeded
Anson Call
Anson Call (May 13, 1810 – August 31, 1890) was a Mormon pioneer and an early Colonization, colonizer of many Mormon corridor, communities in Utah Territory and surrounding states, perhaps best remembered in Mormon history for recording Joseph ...
as Indian agent at Corn Creek, appointed by
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 h ...
. 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
Pioche, Nevada
Pioche () is an Unincorporated towns in Nevada, unincorporated town in Lincoln County, Nevada, Lincoln County, Nevada, United States, approximately northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, Las Vegas. U.S. Route 93 in Nevada, U.S. Route 93 is the main r ...
from 1864 to 1871. Between 1867 and 1869, most of its inhabitants moved upstream to build the town of
Kanosh 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 ghost town
A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economi ...
, 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.
]
See also
* List of ghost towns in Utah
This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Utah, a state of the United States.
Classification
Barren site
* Sites no longer in existence
* Sites that have been destroyed
* Covered with water
* Reverted to pasture
* May have a few dif ...
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