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Show This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process. This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process. OMB No. 10024-0018 NPS Form 10-900-a Microsof1 Word 2.0 Format United States Department of the Interior -NatioAaL Park Service National Register of Continuation Sheet Section No_ ...L Historic Graf10n Historic District, Graf1on, Washington County, UT Page .-4.... ~lJSef!.I.ptlon , Places G Ontlnu 8 d . ,.~ rock lining (Photo U). In many places the ditches have naturally filled in over time and appear only as slight depressions in the land. Many of the ditches have also been filled with large irrigation pipes and then covered with dirt. These ditches now appear as lengthy mounds. The ditch that follows the south edge of the east side of town (behind the Louisa Maria Russell Gabin and fields) is also notable for its construction and well preserved state (Photo V). Much of the loose rock retaining walls of this ditch are still intact, and large chunks of broken historic concrete give evidence to its former appearance. This ditch winds around the base of a sandstone mound, raised slightly above the fields that it once irrigated. Another irrigation feature that merits discussion is located north of the intersection of North and Middle Streets (Photo W). Two of the sandstone corners of intersecting ditches are still intact, and the walls running east-west are also in very good condition . These walls are spanned by the remains of a log structu~ that was probably a bridge. This site appears to be just south of, and adjacent to, one of the t.9k e-out points::trom the river. Current depressions in the land indicate ani}' two locations where the ditch system seems to feed from the river, although more probably existed. The second take-out appe~ to be at the east end of town. '7 -, ~ Many of the historic fences (late 1861-1945) remain in Grafton, and several construction types can be identified. Perhaps the oldest fences are located at the southwest corner of the town and are built with pairs of rough-hewn posts in an ·X· formation with long poles horizontally laid between. Several remaining split rail fences on the Wood property are in an advanced state of deterioration. A third, more common type of fence that is found throughout the community is made of rough posts attached with several strands of barbed wire. _ / > ~- L ,. . VV~rtA;Jur,.., ~'CJtJ -? Virgin River A small portion of the Virgin River is included within the Grafton Historic District boundaries where the few remains of an historic footbridge (Gir.&a- early 20th century, Site #8) are located. Due north of West Street two large poles with heavy, rusted metal cable are anchored into the ground at the edge of a field above the bluff leading down to the river (Photo X). The side of the bluff below the anchor poles is encased with large broken pieces of concrete which once formed a retaining wall for the bridge. Remnants of the retaining wall on the north (opposite) side of the river can barely be seen from the south shore and have also been included within the boundaries. The sandy banks of the river range from approximately twenty to fifty feet wide at the town site, due to erosion from many years of flooding. Pockets-of-qtJieksand-can-alsQJLe foun~_along the banks. Archeological Resources Three Native American sites, two of which are pre-historic, have been identified but not yet excavated at Grafton. A Pueblo site containing buried structures, pottery, and flaked and ground stone is located atop the large mound south of the field behind the Louisa BallardJflg &bin (outside the historic district boundaries, Photo V). The small log granary to the east of t~Q~~~ Maria Ballard Hous.eJ{sits atop a second prehistoric site (Site #17/9) . Pottery shards bel(:)R~~lne Virgin AnasaZi~have <been found at this ---1Lsee continuation sheet |
