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Show With the advent of the automobile, it became possible to farm the lucrative soil and yet I ive in the comfort of St. George, Santa Clara or Washington. Over time, Bloomington met the same fate as its sister villages of Price City, Tonaquint and Atkinville, a few miles down Virgin river. All became ghost towns and once elegant rock and adobe homes gradually crumbled and disappeared or now remain as foundation structures. Two homes now mark the remnants of an area that played an important role in the exploration and settlement of Southern Utah. Several years ago, however, the name Bloomington reappeared, as a multi mi 11 ion dollar resort commun i ty was created in the va 11 ey South of St. George where Brigham Young ended his first Southern excursion of his empire and predicted that sometime, this "Dixie" would bloom. Bloomington now represents Utah's most modern community. The Blake House, one of the two remaining structures, stands as a monument to the toil, perseverance and energies of the pioneers that settled Dixie. |
