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Show SPRING CITY. Spring City is a centrally located municipality, situated on ('anal Creek, fifteen miles northeast of Manti. This pleasant little country village was settled in the spring of '52 by James Allied,* James T. S. Allied and a company of fifteen families sent from Salt Lake City to strengthen the colonists of Sanpete Valley. The small colony proceeded at once to build a fort for protection against Indians and began the cultivation of the soil. They named the settlement Springtown, which remained as the official title, with a later addition of "Little Denmark/' until February 11, 1S70, when it was incorporated as a city, and the original name changed to the present more significant term. After one season of continued trouble from Indian maraudeis, during w hich the entire colony then located at Mt. Pleasant took refuge in their fort and shared their hospitalities, the Springtown pioneers were forced to abandon their colony and remove to T Manti. The Indians made their work of devastation comJanuary H, 1834, by burning the fort and all plete on dwellings erected by the settlers. After the winter had been spent in the Manti fort the Springtown colonists began the settlement of Ephraim and abandoned this place until '59, when a second attempt w as made to T town. The settlement was then called "Little Denmark" because of so many Danes being in the pioneer company. This attempt was more successful, but the colonists endured many hardships incidental to cold winters, Indian hostilities and an isolated build up the |
