16 Friday Dec 2016
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The Little Sahara Recreation Area in Utah is a large area of sand dunes, hills and sagebrush flats located in the west central part of the state approximately 30 miles north of Delta, Utah. It is managed by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management. A 9,000-acre portion of the northwest corner of the facility has been designated as The Rockwell Natural Area and is off limits to vehicles to preserve and shelter desert plants and animals.
29 Saturday Oct 2016
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Some random sand dunes south of Delta we stopped to play on along side the highway.
23 Monday Nov 2015
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The smallest Post Office I’ve ever seen.
The town of Leamington on the northern border of Millard County is situated in a small but fertile valley of the winding Sevier River. It is surrounded on the north, east, and south by the Wasatch range.
In 1871, a number of people from Oak City visited the present site of Leamington. Unlike other Utah settlements, these people were not sent to Leamington by Church authorities. However, Bishop Platt Lyman of Oak City did send John Lovell to Leamington to act as the presiding elder. The first permanent settlers in Leamington built their home in 1873.
Leamington was named after a town in England by Frank Young, a nephew of Brigham Young who was one of the early settlers in Leamington.(*)
28 Wednesday Jan 2015
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Deseret is located about 10 miles southwest of Delta, and about 150 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. The name Deseret comes from the Book of Mormon. The population was 353 at the 2010 census.
Click here for my post on Fort Deseret.
16 Friday Jan 2015
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Settlement of Delta began in 1907 on townlots that had been laid out in 1906. The town was originally called Burtner.
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Delta is rather unusual among the primarily agricultural towns in the state, since it was founded in the twentieth century and owed virtually nothing regarding its establishment to direction from the general hierarchy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The previously settled West Millard farming area was already becoming prosperous from alfalfa seed production when Frederick R. Lyman and others of his Oak City family began investigating the possibility of diverting Sevier River water upstream from the relatively new Gunnison Bend Reservoir, which was used for cultivating lands at Oasis, Deseret, Hinckley, and Abraham. After farmers from those communities claimed winter runoff water and commenced building a larger Sevier Bridge Reservoir in southeastern Juab County, Lyman persuaded his fellow members of the Millard LDS Stake presidency, Orvil Thompson and Alonzo A. Hinckley, to call attorney James A. Melville to determine the feasibility of forming a new irrigation company in connection with this reservoir project. The Mellville Irrigation Company was organized for that purpose on 24 March 1906. Twenty-nine of the thirty-four original incorporators were residents of Millard County.
30 Friday May 2014
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No. 218
Erected 1955
Escalante Trail
Father Escalante camped here October 2, 1776. His exploring party of ten men headed by Father Francisco Dominguez and map-maker Pacheco preached to the Indians and charted a northern route between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Monterey, California. They named this valley “Valley Salado” (Valle of Salt). They traveled west near Clear Lake then east to a hillock, (Pahvant Butte). Here they found marshes and much pasturage, but salt water.
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27 Tuesday May 2014
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This pioneer cabin was built in December 1907 by Henry J. McCullough and was the second house in the town of Melville. One month later January 18, 1908, the first Post Office was established and the name changed to Burtner. Adjoining this cabin, on March 5, 1908, the first store was opened for business. The first Sunday School of the vicinity was organized in this building on September 8, 1908.
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21 Wednesday May 2014
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Fort Deseret
Erected as a defense against Pahvant Indians in the Black Hawk War, completed in 18 days by 98 men. Wm. S. Hawley and Isaac W. Pierce, foremen; John W. Radford, Supt. Opening celebration July 25, 1865. The fort was 550 feet square, bastions at Northeast and Southwest corners and gates in the middle of each wall. Made of adobe mud and straw mixed by the feet of oxen, when completed were 10 feet high, 3 feet wide at base and 1 1/2 feet at top, resting only on a stone foundation.
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31 Thursday Oct 2013
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Hinckley is a beautiful desert oasis in Millard County, Utah and is located along the loneliest highway in America,
Highway 6 & 50 only 34.1 miles from the I15 corridor, northwest of Holden, Utah.
Hinckley was first settled in 1876 by Estraus F. Pack. During this time, the land area was a part of the LDS Deseret Ward and known as Deseret Number Three and then Bloomington.
In 1891, the name Bloomington was dropped and the town was renamed Hinckley after Ira N. Hinckley.
Interestingly enough, the population of Hinckley has fluctuated throughout the years. According to the first census results of 1900, the population in Hinckley was approximately 591. In 1910, the population reduced to approximately 324 and then in the 1920’s peaked at 821 people. According to the current 2010 Census results, the population of Hinckley is approximately 696 people.
In the past, Hinckley residents enjoyed shopping local businesses such as a general merchandise business; a grocery and meat shop; a confectionery;
a barber shop; a garage and service station; picture show; an alfalfa seed plant; a branch railroad line; millinery shops; creamery; drug store; post office; etc.
Today, the residents of Hinckley enjoy a local convenience store and gas station, post office, computer sales and service, land leveling, fossil sales and tourism, gun smith and custom knives, frozen food sales, foster care, horse training and sales, machining, electrical maintenance, trucking, photography, greenhouse and nursery, appraisals, tree trimming, roofing, and light industrial manufacturing.
As you travel Highway 6 and 50, we encourage you to stop and enjoy our beautiful four acre park located on Main Street and 100 North which offers plenty of shade trees for comfortable relaxing, tables for a picnic, and fun play equipment and swings for children.
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