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Show SEP-22-::>5 TUE 15:::>8 NOVA TO: UTAH STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ATTN: TANI"" DATE: SEPTEMBER 22. 1998 FROM: JIM PETERS/INTERPRETIVE GRAPHICS Ephraim Co~op Building COMtrl.lccad in 1871·72 of local ooHtlc limestone, thi5 arm~k Rtlvival style building Is one of tht few remaining I:xltmples of [he Il'IOre: than n~' cooperative metcilntiles chat were em.bli$hed by the lOS thurc:h between 1868 anil:87S. The th1ic floor was a stron2 part ot Ephraim's economy beginning as tI co-op, htrer uSed for faml implt::rl'lem $alt$, I'l ~h¢h! as a United Oeder store, cat r~pall garage, and rlnally as part of Ephraim Roller Mill when a new addition connected it co che Rt:I~l# Society graC'lary to the ~urh. That USIS continued into the \ 9.50s, thell, aft~r d~ca¥~s of neglect, the building was rescored in 1989,90. The se\:ond floor also ~¢rved man~' )urpoS('lS inc\udine a social hall, the3tt!r, Relief Society hall, and the pr~decessor of Snow College whtn it bli:g.:m fit5t home of, ~~:l.npete Scake Academy, in 1886. Marker placed in 1998; I ! I " , . |
