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Show uUL 131997 UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Clipping Service (801) 328-8678 SUMMIT COUNTY BEE Over t~e Mountains From Ka,m as' Valley -- J:lanna , 7~ In 1902. Chancy Lee. one of the firstwhite men here. chased wild horses. TWice each year they were, sold .at Heber~ Park City., or Salt Lake pty. for $5-$ISper head: . _ Rjley Shiddler. his son Bill aqd Mr. Tannerhill. built the first cabiris up North F~ .IiI; 1905. Carl and M~ WIlcken 8Dd, theuseven children lived up at Big Spring. ~o that year a bridge was built o~ the North Fork of the Duchesne River. Tom : Potts was road foreman. Others who ' helped were George WIlcken, ]ohn Toops. William P.·Hanna. Oliff King. and CharIer Shorty Gates. 10hn Toops. aiid -the ThompsODA. . , Tbe hotel at Stockmore. where the lim dances were held. was owned by Tom ~tk, It was later sold to Chancy Lee. Other buSinesses iD that: wen: -owned area' by ,Felii 'and FraDk Chiarelli, Frank Def~ Hy'JQnes. Mr. McCUnen, Mr. Hurst, Cor'- hPlielps, and BertAtwood. ',, _,:.:~ Tb8 fltSt, 4th"of,luly celebration was ' held 'a t thC Haima Grove. I.atQ, an open afr , dance.j)all'was built by William P. Hanna and T .. William Rhoades. A phonograph was,purchased to furnish the music. . ., Lee. ' . The'filst school, iiI 1908, was held at" In ..l90S, Thomas Rhoades and ,his son the HJ Jones place with AlfOrd.Duke as the , ,Will. built a cabin. ~d his wife, Martha. teacher. In 1911, a school house was built and seven children moved in the next in the north valley. Tom McMullen was the 1 spring. They cleared the land, planted , teacher then.loe WIlcken taught there later crops and had a goo(i'balVesl This was the ' on.Tbe~ui1ding was also a community first crop raised in the upper valley. Their center, .being used for church. dances, cabin was also the first in the upper valley. i plays, etc. Before this was built, Sunday In the fall of 1906. William G. Michie, " School was held in the homes. his wife and children came to Farm Creek. Aiilong the next people coming here to settle were: Earl and Mae Atwood, Carl They brought the fIrSt milk cow. About that same time 10hn M. Reid and his son, Par- : and Rosy Leamaster~ Heber and Etta ley Reid. came. They built a rock cabin. -1Moon, John Larsen, and Monroe and' The only In~s living in the Hanna _ Martha Giles. . - -. ~ ,~' . area at that time were 10hn Henry Cody ' : ','Many homes were stricken by the and his wife. losephine, Cutlip lim. Frank influenza epidemic. Many people had the . Buislett. and lesse ,Copperfield. - ~ ~ ; opportunity to use their- nursing skills ' in Later settlers were Frank Defa, John- _ helping otherS atdlis time.. Pilling. lim and Jennie-Maxwell, Bert 'The first ~ ,was brought by:OJaoq .Atwood. Gertrude Gillman. May Smith, Lee. ~gingit::,- ' " • . :~ , , " '~ :-' ~. , ,'",' . •, '-' Continued on,'Poe R~ , <. " . .' |
