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Benjamin, Utah

21 Monday Apr 2014

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Benjamin is a small town of 1,145 as of the 2010 census.

Some residents made a request in February 2009 to make Benjamin an incorporated town, in an effort to prevent annexation by the neighboring cities of Salem, Spanish Fork, and Payson.(*)

Benjamin was settled in 1863 by Barry Wride. A natural outgrowth of Payson, a town just three miles to the north, the townsite of Benjamin was first surveyed in 1886. It was Benjamin Franklin Stewart, an LDS presiding elder from 1868-85, after whom the town was named. Other early settlers included John Hawkins and Benjamin’s brother, Andrew Jackson Stewart.(*)

Palmyra’s Early Buildings

31 Tuesday Dec 2013

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Here is D.U.P. Marker # 500, where we read of the first buildings in Palmyra, Utah.

Palmyra‘s First Amusement Hall

To the north of the little one-room schoolhouse, the people of Palmyra began building the lumber Amusement Hall on February 10, 1900. It took exactly one month to complete the building, and a dance was held in it that evening. A potbellied stove kept the building warm. There was no indoor plumbing; the outhouses were to the east of the building.
For several years, the Amusement Hall was used for church meetings and social activities, including basketball, wrestling, and dances. The Amusement Hall was used until 1933.

Palmyra’s Schools

The first school was built in the Palmyra Fort. The second school, an adobe brick building which measured twenty-four feet by thirty-two feet with a rock foundation, was built across the street in the early 1890s. The entrance was a six-foot hallway with a row of coat hooks around the wall and a shelf above for dinner buckets. There were four rows of double seats with one grade in each row – first, second, third, and fourth; one teacher taught all four grades. There was a potbellied stove in the northeast corner and a blackboard on the east wall. A flowing well was located near the east wall. Horses ridden to school were tied to a hitching post. Some children rode to school in a covered wagon. This school was replaced in 1920.

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Spanish Fork, Utah

03 Tuesday Dec 2013

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Mapleton, Palmyra, Salem, spanish fork, Springville, utah, utah county

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Spanish Fork is eight miles south of Provo on I-15 and the Spanish Fork River. Spanish Fork was an out-growth of Palmyra, Located to the northwest. As the community developed, Palmyra diminished and eventually became a suburb of Spanish Fork. In the early days, both settlements existed with one fort, Fort St. Luke. Spanish Fork received its name from the adjacent river, which was named by the 1776 Dominguez-Escalante expeditions.

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  • Beet Factory
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  • Festival of Lights
  • First Icelandic Settlement in USA
  • Glade’s Drive Inn
  • Grist Mills
  • Hide-Tallow Service Station
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  • Indian Farm
  • Leland
  • Library
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  • Main Street Chapel
  • Old Fort
  • Parks in Spanish Fork
  • Pioneer Heritage Cemetery 
    • Heritage Cemetery DUP Marker
    • Pioneer Cemetery DUP Marker
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  • Spanish Fork Grist Mills
  • Spanish Fork High School Gymnasium
  • Spanish Oaks Reservoir
  • Spring Plowing
  • Thurber School / City Office Building
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Palmyra, Utah

19 Tuesday Nov 2013

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Palmyra was founded in 1852 on the banks of the Spanish Fork River. The town soon became absorbed into the city of Spanish Fork. Present-day Palmyra is a later out-growth of Spanish Fork. Both Palmyra’s were named for Palmyra, New York, a town prominent in early Mormon history.

Check out the old historic marker at the site of the old fort here.

Related Posts:

  • Fort Palmyra Pioneer Settlement
  • Holt Farm
  • Old Palmyra Fort Marker
  • Palmyra Historic Marker
  • Palmyra’s Early Buildings
  • Spanish Fork, Utah
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West Mountain

31 Thursday Oct 2013

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Benjamin, Genola, Palmyra, Payson, Santaquin, spanish fork, utah, utah county, West Mountain

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West Mountain Observatory

West Mountain is a mountain west of Spanish Fork, Palmyra, Benjamin, West Mountain and Salem, it is North of Genola and it is bordered on the west and north by Utah Lake.

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There are plenty of geocaches up there to keep you entertained, but be careful what time of year you go if you’re going to hike around at all because we call it spider mountain for a good reason, every bush, tree or rock has a spider on it, some bushes have hundreds. That was in July.

There’s a fun road that takes you up to the top, it’s a dirt road but it’s graded and you can take pretty much anything up there.

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