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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 23 the Manti fort and located on Pine Creek, seven miles north of Manti, the site afterward being called Ephraiin, the name coming from the Book of Mormon. Isaac Be- hunnin had built a home on this creek as early as the spring of 1851, but had to return to Manti for protection against the Indians. This settlement was really the first successful approach toward forming a colony outside of Manti. Several additions were made to their numbers during the fall of 1854 by families of Scandinavians from Lake City. The grasshoppers invaded their farms in 1855 and 1856 and destroyed almost all crops, causing much disaster and privation, but the noble band withstood the pangs of hunger and poverty and overcame all Salt obstacles. The year 1859 was favorable for locating new colo- because of peace having been concluded with the Indians, and an early spring giving evidence of a good crop season. A company, made up of James Ivie, TV. S. Seely, David Jones, Isaac Allred and others, entered upon the present site of Mount Pleasant in April and began the work of a permanent colony. The same month James Allred and others returned to Spring City on Canal Creek, and began a second time the settlement of what was for some time known as "Little Denmark." In March of this year George W. Bradley and eight others from Nephi located Moroni, "eighteen miles north of Manti." In the fall Geo. W. Johnson and others settled Fountain Green, put up some hay and built a few houses. Gunnison was settled this season by Jacob Hutchinson and company. nies, Fairview, generally called North Bend by the old was first colonized during the winter of 1859, by a company consisting of James H. Jones, Henry W. Sanderson, Jehu Cox, Isaac Y. Vance, Lindsay A. Brady and others. Wales, or Coalville, was located this year by settlers, |
