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Beaver, Utah

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Beaver City, in southwestern Utah, is located in one of the valleys of the vast “Basin and Range” country. The town was settled by Mormon pioneers on the banks of the Beaver River in February of 11856 and both the town and the river derived their names from the profusion of beaver that lived in the vicinity.

The local surroundings of Beaver are magnificent. There are mountains looming on all horizons, the lofty Tushar Range rising to over 12,000 feet to the east. The Tushars were once active volcanoes but are now tranquil, forested mountains. Several peaks tower above the timberline, and are either carpeted with low-growing wild flowers, or consist of barren scree slopes. It is also in these mountains that the Beaver River has its source. Beaver City is situated on an ancient alluvial fan, washed out from these mountains over the ages. The valley is broad, approximately thirteen miles wide, bounded on the west by the Mineral Mountains. These mountains are composed primarily of intrusive granite which is now exposed.

The valley’s vegetation is typical of lower elevation Basin and Range country: there is sagebrush, some cactus, juniper and pinon pine on the hillsides, with willows and cottonwood trees along the streams. The climate is considered desert or sub-humid, in that the evaporation of moisture is greater than the annual amount of precipitation. Beaver’s elevation is almost 6,000 feet, and this factor has played as important a role as the desert climate in shaping the town’s character

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One of the popular stops is at the Chevron gas station at the south Beaver exit where people can get pictures taken in a giant rocking chair.

Enoch, Utah

05 Tuesday Nov 2013

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Enoch was originally settled as part of an iron mission along with Cedar City and Parowan. The area was originally known as Johnson Springs, as named by Joel H. Johnson, the earliest known white settler. In 1890, the area’s name was changed to Enoch, to avoid confusion with another settlement in Utah also named Johnson Springs. Enoch was officially incorporated on January 10, 1966, absorbing nearby Grimshawville, Stevensville, and Williamsville.

Parowan, Utah

05 Tuesday Nov 2013

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Parowan is just off the freeway in Southern Utah (Iron County,) just north of Cedar City and Enoch.

Pioneer First Camp Ground

05 Tuesday Nov 2013

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Daughter’s of Utah Pioneers Historic Marker # 147

(Other markers listed at JacobBarlow.com/dup)

Near this site, February 6, 1856, in zero weather, Beaver pioneers made their first camp. Prior to this, the land had been rejected as unfit for cultivation, but the amount of water available gave courage. At a mass meeting in Parowan some of the more venturesome families were selected. Led by Captain Simeon F. Howd, Wilson G. Nowers, James P. Anderson, John Henderson, Ross G. Rogers, J.M. Davis, Lorin W. Babbit, William Wanlass and James Low they faced the seemingly impossible and redeemed the valley.

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Skinner, Alfred and Rosy, House

05 Tuesday Nov 2013

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Alfred and Rosy Skinner House
(232 West 800 South)

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Alfred and Rosy Skinner House

The Alfred and Rosy Skinner house began as a square single-cell house constructed in 1905-06. It has a fieldstone and lime mortar foundation, kiln dried, common brick walls, a frame roof with machine-cut shingles, and a brick chimney and flue on the east elevation. The addition was an exact copy, matched in fenestration and building materials. Also, matching molding was installed around the eaves and gables on both the existing and new additions. Skinner, who was raised on the Provo Bench (Orem), moved away and then returned, as many did, to start a farm and raise produce. The increasing size of the house over the years symbolizes the increased prosperity Skinner saw as Orem became more and more important as a farming and orchard community.

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Cordner, Jesse W., House

05 Tuesday Nov 2013

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Jesse W. Cordner House
(497 East 400 South)

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Jesse W. Cordner House

Jesse W. Cordner was born in 1895 and was the grandson of Thomas and Mary Ann Cordner who were the first residents of the Provo Bench to spend an entire winter on the bench instead of in Provo. In 1915, Jesse’s father purchased 21 acres which he sold to Jesse in 1919. The Cordners planned to build a new home and had driven all over trying to find an example of a house that they liked. They found one in American Fork and were able to borrow the plans from the owner. Jesse built this house in 1938 with the help of sub-contractors. The total cost to build the home was $3,000.00. The exterior of this 1938 period cottage type is constructed of multi-colored brick, predominantly dark red. The English Cottage style includes a steeply pitched, gabled roof. This architecture was unique to the time period.

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Cedar City, Utah

05 Tuesday Nov 2013

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I’m not really sure why but Cedar City has always been one of my favorite towns in Utah and my most preferred place to spend the night on adventures to explore the southern part of the state. It is beautiful there and there is a lot of history to be seen, nice people too.

There are many festivals, the Utah Shakespearean Festival, and it is the home of Southern Utah University.

Cedar City is the largest city in Iron County.

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Cranney, W. Doyle & Nettie Marie Peterson, House

05 Tuesday Nov 2013

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W. Doyle & Nettie Marie Peterson Cranney House
(624 South 400 East)

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W. Doyle & Nettie Marie Peterson Cranney House

The W. Doyle and Nettie Marie Peterson Cranney house is a brick, single story World War II-era cottage built in 1941 in the Minimal Traditional style. This style was popular in Utah from 1935 to 1950, and this particular example is, to some extent based on the earlier English cottage style. The Cranney house is in a cross-wing form with a prominent projecting front-facing cross gable. Dr. Wyndon Doyle Cranney, a physician in Orem, bought the house in 1949 when the family moved from Ephraim to Orem. He lived in the house for thirty-five years with his wife Nettie Marie and their children. The title to the house remained in the family until 1983.

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Gappmayer, Bartl & Mary Nelson, House

05 Tuesday Nov 2013

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Bartl & Mary Nelson Gappmayer House
(144 East 1200 South)

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Bartl & Mary Nelson Gappmayer House

The Gappmayer house is a two-story, foursquare type building with a combination of Late-Victorian and Neoclassical Stylistic details. The house was built around 1907 and is a rare example in Orem of the two-story foursquare house. This type of house was popular in Utah from about 1900 until about 1915, when it fell out of favor. It is rare perhaps because its size made it prohibitively expensive for the farmers of modest means who made up most of the residents of the Provo Bench. Bartl and Mary Gappmayer were farmers who moved to the Provo Bench from Heber City, Utah. They built the house in 1907 and then sold the property in 1915. Their children later retained title to the property from their uncle. Lewis and Isabella Gappmayer later moved into the house with their four children.

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Gappmayer, Lewis & Isabel, House

04 Monday Nov 2013

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Lewis & Isabel Gappmayer House
(204 East 1200 South)

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Lewis & Isabel Gappmayer House

The Lewis & Isabel Gappmayer house is one of few remaining farm houses on 1200 South. Built in 1921, a year after Lewis married Isabel Billings, this one story
brick Craftsman-style bungalow originally was constructed on a larger parcel of land. The orchards surrounding the house are gone, but the house remains a reminder of the agricultural landscape of the early Provo Bench area. The house is still owned by descendents of Lewis and Isabel.

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