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Harrisburg

02 Thursday Feb 2023

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Harrisburg

In 1859, after helping settle San Bernardino California, Moses Harris moved his family to Utah and settled on the Virgin River near Quail Creek. In 1862 a flood forced the settlers further up Quail Creek to the Cottonwood Creek fork. Due to the many large rocks in the area the settlers built their homes and barns of stone. Rocks gathered while clearing their land for planting were used to establish property lines, leaving several miles of stone fences. By 1864 there were sixteen families totaling 128 people living here. In 1868 the population was about 200 people. Many worked at the Silver Reef mines and mills. By 1892 repeated flooding had driven away all but six families.

This historic marker is located in Harrisburg, Utah and was dedicated by the Matt Warner Chapter 1900 of E Clampus Vitus on March 21, 1999 (6004)

Harrisburg Historic Pioneer Cemetery

26 Wednesday Apr 2017

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Honoring early Harrisburg Pioneers and their infants and children

Surname Given Name Middle/Maiden Birth Death
Cox Willard Glover 13 Feb 1887 7 Aug 1887
Daily Sarah Jane Wilson 21 Dec 1830 22 Oct 1873
Earl Eliza 1 May 1864 (Died as Child)
Earl Wilbur Joseph 29 Mar 1817 6 Aug 1874
Fuller Anne Belle Campkin 12 Aug 1841 11 Sep 1878
Fuller Elizabeth Vaughn 3 Oct 1845 7 Jan 1865
Fuller Elizabeth Vaughn 4 Jan 1865 4 Jan 1865
Fuller Orrin Eugene 8 May 1872 8 May 1872
Goddard Mary Ann Pace 20 Oct 1835 1915
Goddard William Pettibone 10 Jan 1827 1903
Hamilton Abel 28 Jan 1974 11 Oct 1874
Harris Bernice 4 Aug 1897 11 Feb 1898
Jolley John Bryant 1 Feb 1868 8 Feb 1868
Jolley Mary Ann Harris 25 Feb 1851 10 Feb 1868
Leany David 29 Dec 1877 10 Jun 1879
Leany Edwin 22 Apr 1876 28 Apr 1876
Leany Elizabeth Scearce 4 Jan 1822 9 Jun 1908
Leany Ellen 19 Dec 1878 21 Aug 1879
Leany Elmer 9 Dec 1906 14 Dec 1906
Leany Mary 19 Dec 1859 22 Jan 1915
Leany Mary Elizabeth 3 Nov 1869 3 Nov 1869

Leany Thomas Jefferson 4 Jul 1865 11 Dec 1896
Leany William Condie 19 Dec 1876 22 Mar 1877
Leany William 19 Dec 1815 29 Dec 1891
McCleve John Taylor 27 Mar 1845 5 Jun 1867
McMullin Martha Richards 2 Oct 1814 11 Jun 1867
McMullin Mary Ann Holmes 2 Jul 1836 12 Dec 1895
McMullin Willard Glover 21 Feb 1823 17 Oct 1884
Meeks Charles Mason 31 Mar 1872 25 Oct 1873
Meeks John Priddy 29 Sep 1863 11 Oct 1863
Mulford Furman 27 Jul 1812 23 Jan 1865
Newton Ann Jacques 16 Nov 1813 1 Nov 1892
Newton Elizabeth Ann 12 May 1860 30 Mar 1866
Newton John 1 May 1815 16 Jun 1864
Robb (Baby Boy) 26 Apr 1873 26 Apr 1873
Robb Albert 18 Sep 1866 21 Apr 1868
Robb Susannah Drummond 13 Nov 1837 26 Apr 1873
Robb Susannah 4 Jan 1864 Oct 1864

Note: After more than two year’s research in co-ordination with the Harrisburg Estates Homeowners Association (owners of this cemetery), this plaque was erected honoring early Harrisburg Pioneers and their infants and children.

See other historic markers in the series on this page for SUP Markers.

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Harrisburg Residents

26 Wednesday Apr 2017

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2017-03-19 16.02.02

HARRISBURG RESIDENTS
Named here are the Heads of the Families who settled in Harrisburg between 1859 and 1928:
1859
Moses Harris
1860
James Lewis Hosea Stout
1862
William Leany Dr. Priddy Meeks John Brimhall
Orson Adams Elijah K. Fuller Samuel Hamilton
William Robb Rufus Allen Allen J. Stout
Mosiah L. Hancock Alfred J. Randall
1863
Willard G. McMullen Samuel Gould John Newton
David Ellsworth John McCleve Allen Taylor
William Taylor

1865
Henry E. Harrington Milton Daily Wilson Daily
Thomas Adair Willbur Earl William Stirling
AL Carpenter Jerome Asa
Robert Richardson Frank Owens

See other historic markers in the series on this page for SUP Markers.

Harrisburg, Utah

26 Wednesday Apr 2017

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Ghost Towns, Harrisburg, historic, Leeds, Silver Reef, utah, Washington County

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A Tale of Three Towns

26 Wednesday Apr 2017

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A Tale of Three Towns

The history of three towns—Harrisburg, Silver Reef, and Leeds—is
intricately connected. Harrisburg and Silver Reef are ghost towns today, while Leeds persists. Like many locations in the arid west, water and its availability and accessibility was the determining factor in whether a town lived or withered away.

Harrisburg

The first settlement in the area was Harrisburg, founded in 1861 by Moses Harris and a few Mormon families who settled along Quail Creek. Despite their efforts in digging a 5-mile-long irrigation canal along what is now known as Leeds Creek, growth was hampered by rocky soil and limited land available for farming. By 1876 Harrisburg was losing population and essentially failing. Today, remnants of a few pioneer homes and the restored Adams House are all that remain of Historic Harrisburg.

Silver Reef

About the same time Leeds was settled, silver was discovered on the White Reef. This reef, an upturned sandstone ledge, parallels I-15 from Harrisburg to a point north of Leeds. Miners and immigrants, including many of Irish, Cornish, and Chinese origin, rushed to the area with the hope of making their fortunes. The boomtown of Silver Reef sprang up about a mile north of Leeds, and by 1878 was a considerably larger community than either diminishing Harrisburg or the growing farming community of Leeds. At its height, Silver Reef boasted nearly a dozen mines and six ore processing mills, plus retail stores, saloons, hotels, banks, a school, Wells Fargo express office, theater company, and other urban amenities. Leeds and Silver Reef were a study in contrasts. Despite great differences in ethnicity, religion, and culture, the mining boomtown and its agricultural neighbor formed a mutually dependent relationship. The miners at Silver Reef were sustained by produce from Leeds, and Leeds farmers flourished with cash from the miners for their crops. By 1900 Silver Reef had died as the most easily accessible silver ore had been mined and the price of silver plummeted; however, the farming community of Leeds survived.

Leeds

By 1867 the Harrisburg pioneers realized that a place called “Road Valley,” just to the north, was more suitable for diverting water and cultivating farmland. Amidst controversy, but with direction from Mormon leader Erastus Snow, many families moved from Harrisburg to Road Valley. An irrigation ditch was dug and water was brought to the site. The town was organized on December 1, 1867, and named Bennington, in honor of the town’s bishop, Benjamin Stringham. Bishop Stringham later requested that the town be named after Leeds, England, where he had served as a Mormon missionary. In May of 1869, Bennington became Leeds.(*)

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Harrisburg

07 Saturday Jun 2014

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The town of Harrisburg was founded by Moses Harris in 1859. By 1868, twenty-five families had made their homes in this little valley along Quail Creek, located three miles south of Leeds and twelve miles northeast of St. George. The town thrived almost fifty years and included some thirty homes surrounded by vineyards and orchards. Cane for sorghum and molasses was raised by bringing water from Quail Creek. Wagon freighters, plodding from Salt Lake to St. George, made Harrisburg a favorite stopping place.

When spring water diminished, or the once rushing water was diverted to other communities, many of the families were unable to continue farming and moved to other locations. They left behind a newly built dam along with the orchards and vineyards. Water, or the lack of it, spelled the fate of this community. Harrisburg has also suffered much destruction by grasshoppers in 1869.

The ruins of Harrisburg show evidence of homes, including two stone houses without roofs, and a little cemetery surrounded by a wrought iron fence. By 1928 there were only two families still living in the once thriving town of Harrisburg.

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