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Lee’s Ranch Indian Raid

23 Friday Jun 2017

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Hostile Indians raided a small settlement in this vicinity October 27, 1866, centering their attack on the house where Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Lee, their two daughters, and 8 year old son, a young Miss Hall and Joseph Lillywhite were barricaded, fighting desperately. During the daylong battle, Lillywhite was seriously wounded. Lee killed three Indians, and the house was badly damaged, partly by firebrands. Miss Hall and the 8-year-old son escaped and secretly journeyed by separate trails to Beaver to give the alarm. Posses of Militiamen were organized and sent to the rescue. When they arrived the Indians had departed.

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Manderfield, Utah

19 Thursday Nov 2015

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Manderfield, Utah, just north of Beaver and the birthplace of Philo Taylor Farnsworth  who was an American inventor. He is best known for inventing the first completely electronic television. In particular, he was the first to make a working electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), and the first to demonstrate an all-electronic television system to the public.

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Beaver Stake Tabernacle

05 Tuesday Nov 2013

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On this site in 1865-66 a tabernacle was erected by the Pioneers. Built of local brick, lumber and stone. It was of pioneer architecture with a large assembly hall, gallery, full basement, a tower and large bell. This building was used for church and public gatherings. Later a church school was conducted in the basement. After 76 years of service it was torn down and on this historic spot now stands the home of Daughters of Utah Pioneers.

Daughter’s of Utah Pioneers Historic Marker # 64 in Main Street Park in Beaver, Utah.

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The Beaver Woolen Mills

05 Tuesday Nov 2013

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Daughter’s of Utah Pioneers Marker # 31

(other DUP Markers are listed at JacobBarlow.com/dup)

(Incorporated 1869) On this site in 1870, in a three story building, 60 x 120 feet, the first Woolen Mills in Southern Utah operated. Machinery was brought here from New England by railroad and wagon. John Ashworth and others schooled in England in the art of wool manufacturing formed the corporation. For many years this mill was the main factor in the growth and prosperity of Beaver and surrounding territory. It was destroyed by fire in 1920.

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Beaver, Utah

05 Tuesday Nov 2013

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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.

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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