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Show CHESTER. Chester is the most centrally located village in Sanpete county, and occupies a fertile spot, the superior of which is not found in central Utah. The place is fragrant with flower gardens, delicious fruit orchards and productive fields of waving grain and succulent grasses. In the early days of colonial history in this county the present site of this prosperous community was one vast hay meadow, used by the citizens The people of Moroni, Mt. Pleasant and Spring City. would camp at different points on Canal creek bottoms, cut and stack their hay, and while seated round the harvest dinner, would predict that some day the land would be owned and occupied by thrifty and industrious farmers. May 1, 1870, Hon. David Candland located his present homestead, and in 75 removed to his farm. He was followed soon by Hans Beck and family and later by R. W. Allred, I. N. Allred, James A. Allred, George Farnsworth, Joseph Bagnall and others, who have made of Chester its present magnificent colony of contented and peaceful people, surrounded by the necessities and comforts of life. But these surroundings were not obtained without many hard and trying days, months and years of privation. The Indian troubles had not ceased when the pioneers first located their claims and a lone settler never knew when bullets was safe from the savages' The men and women who colon- his life or property and firebrands. |
