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Hanksville Veteran Memorial

08 Saturday Jan 2022

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In honor and memory of the boys of our ward who served in World War II

  • Romie Ortego
  • Reo V. Hunt
  • Charles W. Noyes
  • Martin L. Robison
  • Kay L. Hunt
  • Laurence A. Ekker
  • Thurzel Allen
  • Ivel K. Sheffield
  • Bruce Ekker
  • Hyrum W. Noyes
  • Morris W. Lance
  • Ralph A. Porter
  • Gordan K. Johnson
  • William R. Porter

Monument erected by Hanksville M.I.A.

Located at approximately 40 West Main Street in Hanksville, Utah

Hollow Mountain

13 Monday Dec 2021

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Hollow Mountain is a pretty cool place to stop in Hanksville, Utah – it is a store that is carved out of a cliff.

Hanksville Cemetery

08 Wednesday Dec 2021

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The cemetery in Hanksville, Utah.

Hanksville Rock Meeting House

04 Saturday Dec 2021

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Hanksville Rock Meeting House

This buff-colored rock building was constructed by Franz J. Weber, rock mason. It is believed that John G. Ekker, a church official in 1919, and others helped Mr. Weber with the rock work. The rocks were hauled in wagons by men of the community. The building was probably completed in 1920.

Don McDougell and Clive Mecham laid the hardwood floor and constructed benches. A stage was built in the west end of the building with a bell tower over the east double doors. The bell was rung 15 minutes before meetings began. Wood burning stoves heated the building.

Although the building was owned by the LDS Church and used for church meetings, it was also used for weddings, dances, plays, socials, and civic meetings until 1959. The Church deeded the building to the Hanksville Canal company, who gave it to Wayne County, who returned it to Hanksville Town when it was incorporated in 1999.

This building is listed on the register of the Utah State Historical Society and located at 10 South Center Street in Hanksville, Utah.

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Desert Sentinels

16 Sunday Aug 2020

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Off Highway 24 north of Hanksville are some pretty interesting rocks.

Ticaboo, Utah

25 Sunday Sep 2016

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Ticaboo gets its name from Ticaboo Creek, which was named by Cass Hite in the 1880s, for a Paiute word meaning “friendly.”

The Ticaboo townsite is a master-planned community that was organized in the late 1970s to both provide housing to the then booming uranium mining industry in southeastern Garfield County, and tap into the tourism potential of nearby Lake Powell. The Ticaboo Resort was developed to provide accommodations to guests visiting the remote area as well as to encourage the development of a tourism base outside of Bullfrog in the northern Lake Powell area.

The first inhabitants of Ticaboo were Kayenta Anasazi. In October 1981, the Division of Utah State History conducted an excavation of a small settlement known as the Ticaboo Town Ruins, located directly west of the town of Ticaboo.

Ticaboo Resort is one of many master development lease holders tasked with the development of Ticaboo by the Utah School and Trust Lands Administration (SITLA). Previous master development lease holders have included mining companies who also owned mines in the Henry Mountain Complex, or the Shootaring Mill. Originally established in 1977, Plateau Resources Limited was the master development lease holder and constructed the infrastructure that still exists today for electric, water, and wastewater.

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Hanksville, Utah

18 Thursday Feb 2016

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In the spring of 1882 Ebenezer Hanks, Ebenezer McDougall, Joseph Sylvester, Charles Gould, and Samuel Gould moved with their families from Washington County to what would become Hanksville, Utah.

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Dirty Devil River

06 Wednesday Nov 2013

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The Dirty Devil River is a river in Southern Utah, the story goes that During an expedition on the Colorado River, John Wesley Powell and his team floated past a tributary stream that was very muddy and full of sediment. One of the crew said “What A Dirty Devil!”.

The Dirty Devil River is a 80-mile long tributary of the Colorado River, located in the U.S. state of Utah. It flows through southern Utah from the confluence of Fremont River and Muddy Creek to the Colorado River.

There are many magnificent views from atop huge cliffs looking down at the Dirty Devil, here are some photos I took from atop Bert Mesa. (N 38° 07.625 W 110° 25.113)

– Dirty Devil River –

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Bert Mesa

06 Wednesday Nov 2013

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Bert Mesa was a really fun and interesting place to explore. We came off the highway at about N 38.15751 W 110.62134 and went east through Adobe Swale to Burr Point, from there we had to struggle to drive down the cliffs to Bert Mesa, I’m no jeeping pro so it was pretty iffy.

Coming down from Burr Point was quite the adventure, we actually had to improve the road to get the some of the vehicles to make it.

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Burr Point road improvements

Once we made it down we explored and went over to the eastern edge to look 1,000+ feet down and see the amazing view of the Dirt Devil River below.

This is such a remote, lonely and beautiful area.

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Goblin Valley, Utah

31 Thursday Oct 2013

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Cowboys searching for cattle first discovered secluded Goblin Valley. Then in the late 1920s, Arthur Chaffin, owner/operator of the Hite Ferry, and two companions were searching for an alternative route between Green River and Caineville. They came to a vantage point about a mile west of Goblin Valley and were awed by what they saw, five buttes and a valley of strange-shaped rock formations surrounded by a wall of eroded cliffs.

In 1949, Chaffin returned to the area he called Mushroom Valley. He spent several days exploring the mysterious valley and photographing its scores of intricately eroded creatures. The area was acquired by the state of Utah and in 1964 was officially designated a state park.

Goblin Valley State Park is a showcase of geologic history. Exposed cliffs reveal parallel layers of rock bared by erosion. Because of the uneven hardness of sandstone, some patches resist erosion much better than others. The softer material is removed by wind and water, leaving thousands of unique, geologic goblins. Water erosion and the smoothing action of windblown dust work together to shape the goblins.

Bedrock is exposed because of the thin soil and lack of vegetation. When rain does fall, there are few plant roots and little soil to capture and hold the water, which quickly disappears, in muddy streams without penetrating the bedrock.

Opened to the public as a state park in 1964.*

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