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Show FOUNTAIN GREEN Fountain Green is a nice little town of 1,200 or more honest, industrious and enterprising people, located on Uinta Creek, twenty-five miles north of Manti, and within of the northern boundary line of Sanpete county. This beautiful mountain home was selected by George W. Johnson as the most suitable spot in the valley for founding a colony, and amid the most daring scenes of Utah early days, this bold frontiersman, with his family and a few equally courageous pioneers, braved the perils of Indian hostilities, cold and hunger, and erected homes in the isolated wilderness of sagebrush and quakenasp trees. The site had been a camping place for travelers to and from Manti, and was known to all colonists as Uinta Springs. In the spring of 1S59 George W. Johnson obtained permission from Brigham Young to locate the town and get settlers, and immediately after July 4th he secured the services of Albert Petty, then surveyor for Sanpete, and surveyed the original site, consisting of five blocks. The chain-carriers in this hazardous expedition were Amos P. Johnson and Heber Petty. While the party were engaged in running the lines and setting stakes, a band of Indians dashed down from the cedars on the mountain slope and stole the horses, then grazing on the native grass. This left the company alone, with no choice except to walk to Santaquin, thirty-two miles away, or return to Manti, twenty-five miles south. After a weary journey on foot Pioneer Johnson and son reached their home at Santaquin and began making preparations for returning and building- a new home on the site surveved. six miles |
