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Show Utah's first year-round communities. Modern Bloomington now has over 300 famil ies in residence and many more vacation homes and condiminiums for part-time residents from throughout the United States. There are 36 holes of golf, swimming pools, tennis courts, riding stables. The Virgin river has apparently finally been tamed. Homes, some costing in excess of $250,000, now overlook this deceptive river, which historically would change from a trickling stream to raging torrents of water, destroying years of pioneers ' toil overnight. Mill ions of dol lars of investment have taken place in Bloomington in the past 10 years, making it now one of Utah's most modern communities. Whi Ie Bloomington now connotes a modern resort area, two stone homes remain, both partially intact, to remind all that the area was not always a place to "relax and play in the sunil. This application to the National Historic Register is to preserve the Wal lace Blake Homesite, a four-room stone farmhouse and grainery. Plans are underway to restore this house as a permanent reminder of the difficult and colorful history of Dixie and the Mormon Cotton Mission. |
