Mountain Meadow or Mountain Meadows, is an area in present-day Washington County, Utah. It was a place of rest and grazing used by pack trains and drovers, on the Old Spanish Trail and later Mormons, Forty-niners, mail riders, migrants and teamsters on the Mormon Road on their way overland between Utah and

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History

In 1856, Mormon settlers established Hamblin east of the head of Holt Canyon, originally called Meadow Canyon. Mountain Meadow is the location of the September 11, 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, marked by the Mountain Meadows Massacre Memorial, at . The children that survived the massacre were first taken in by families in Hamblin. Mountain Meadow was originally much larger, with better water and grazing than today, running 10 miles from Holt Canyon. at on the north, to the upper reach of Magotsu Creek to the south. It is located at , and . Its elevation lay at . Overgrazing of the meadows subsequently led to their erosion, and consequent lowering of the water table, drying up many of its springs and degrading of the meadow grasslands. This in turn led to the abandonment of the settlement of Hamblin by 1905.

References

Old Spanish Trail (trade route) Mormon Road National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Utah Significant places in Mormonism Mountain Meadows Massacre National Historic Landmarks in Utah Geography of Washington County, Utah Meadows in the United States Conflict sites on National Register of Historic Places in Utah {{LDS-stub