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Show Figure 1: Manti, view looking north, c. 1900 thinking, the Mormon town was a residential community in which family homesteads were located within the boundaries of the town rather than scattered out on the surrounding farmland (Figure 1). This intensive type of settlement differed sharply from the typically extensive American pattern of isolated family farms, 1 a contrast that did not go unnoticed by students of American settlement. The first study to look specifically at the structure of the Latter-day Saint agricultural community was Lowry Nelson's The Mormon Village. 2 A sociologist, Nelson recogniz2d that the "manner in which rural people arrange their habitations upon the land constitutes one of the important factors determining the nature of social organization" and further concluded 2 |
