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Tag Archives: Escalante

First Public Building

18 Wednesday Dec 2013

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DUP, Escalante, First, Garfield County, historic, utah

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In 1876-77 Escalante Pioneers erected a log building, 36×18 ft., located 20 feet west of this marker. The logs 18″ in diameter, came from Cyclone Lake Mountain by ox team. They were hewn by hand, fastened with oak pins, morticed ends and chinked with lime mortar. It had white sandstone foundation, one door, three windows on each side, and shingled with white pine shingles. Desks were boards hinged to the wall. Seats were split logs, flat side up, no back. Building used for school and all public gatherings until 1885. Teachers – Jane S. Coleman, Mary Ann P. Schow, John Miles. Building vacated in 1898.

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Escalante

18 Wednesday Dec 2013

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DUP, Escalante, Garfield County, historic, utah

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In 1866 a group of Mormon Cavalrymen noted this valley, while in pursuit of Indians, during the Black Hawk War.

In February, 1875, a company of men came from Beaver, Utah and explored the valley. The first permanent settlers arrived November 1875.

The town site was surveyed, homes built and a bowery erected.

July 4, 1876, in absence of a better flag, they hoisted a striped Navajo blanket.

The city was named for Father Escalante, a Spanish priest who visited Utah in 1776.

Organized as a Latter-day Saint Ward August 5, 1877.

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Escalante, Utah

31 Thursday Oct 2013

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Escalante, Escalante y Dominguez, Garfield County, Silvestre Velez de Escalante, utah

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Escalante Posts:

  • Escalante Cemetery
  • Escalante DUP Marker
  • Escalante E
  • Escalante Historic District
  • Escalante Post Office
  • First Public Building
  • Head of the Rocks Overlook
  • L.D.S. Tithing Office
  • Old Boulder Mail Trail

Previously known as Potato and also Spud Valley, Escalante is in Garfield County, Utah. It is named after Silvestre Velez de Escalante, a missionary and the first European explorer in the general area although he never came to this valley.

The first white people here were a group of Mormon cavalry during the Black Hawk Indian War of the mid-1860s.

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