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Show ~y . ~. .ac BEBBY'S WESTEBZrSHDP 41 NORTH MAIN CEDAR CITY, .UTAH ...- . • Wa Feature the W'ldastRanga of Wastam Wear Tony Lame~ Nacol\II & MI.. Capezlo Boots American and Miller Brother. Hats .Pants and Shirts by L... Wrangler and . Larry Mahan . . Boy. .nd.GIrIa Clothes by Kid KCklntry In W ~gon-bo~ fori pr~vided prt;ltection frol!l the cold wind and Indiaris aiTo",s by NorrrianL. Forbush The newly arrived pioneer sis ted of wagon bOxes that similar shelters were built had been busy after their Were lifted off the wagons around - them. One new arrival at Center Creek · and placed on the grolUld in a group,. the indepen~ent Warowan) on January 13, straight line facing south Scotch Company arrived 1851.. They had 'been building and spaced equal distances Nove'mber 18. ' homes, bridges, and a apart. In front of each In the center of the line of Council House, which wagon box, a wall of wagons, an enclosure was doubled as fort for a time, sag~brush weighted with built of brush and earth, into and in getting crops planted. earth was built in a half- which the .colony gathered The spring and sUmmer ~ad . circle, of uniform :;hape and morning and eyening for come and go~e, a rich size, they were built to form prayers, and in which all harvest of gram,potatoes, a straight line on the' south. meetings were held. ' Logs squash, and vegetables was These walls were higher served for seats. This yard taken; and a ,grist mill had than a man's head and thick extended to the camp lines been erected to provide flour enough that an arrow would both front and back, and the for the new settlers. not pierce them. They front and rear lines were On Novem,ber 10, '1851; served as a windbreak and made straight so that' senCaptain Henry Lunt was as a shelter and defense and tries walking the paths in placed in <:h~rge of a com- they provided a measu~e of . times of danger could see pany consls~mg Of. ele~en privacy for each family. clearly the entire length of wagons and aQou~ thIrty-fIve Inside the half circles, the the camp. On the north ofthe camp, a men .. (See: ~rticle by Dr. campfires were built and the !'dorrIs A. ShIrts el~ewhere cooking done. The walls large stockade for the m this paper.) ThIS com- werepracticailyfireprOof. ~ livestock was built by pany was to establish. the At the wagon on each ena .standing drift logs on end in Iron Works at Cedar CIty. of the line the wall was built a trench. They were placed They arrived on Coal Creek solid on the outer side. On all close enough togetper that after traveling two days in a ' others there were ' com- arrows could not be shot snow storm. On ~ovember m un i'c a tin gop e n i n g s between them. If attacked, 11, 1851, they cam~ed by the through which people could the people co~ld pass knoll about a mile due north pass along the entire line of through the gates mto the log from the present location of wagons and be under cover . stockade. . Across the sentry path on Cedar City. from attack all the time. The Cedar City En- When new settlers arrived the South and in the center of campment wa,s established their .wagons were placed on the line, a Liberty Pole was the winter of 1851 and con- either end of th~ line: and , raised which was dedicated . . . Oto1. ! .COME ~ LI'IIESTOC.K SEE US SooNI ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~TOCK~O~E~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ __ A5SEMBl't -- ----__:...-_ _~_ _ _---,5:::.!:E:.!.N"T R Y W A L K _ _ _ _ _ __ -.-~ ;:.:"C-"(--- - " N pOI.. ...--.- a Wagon Box Fort reproduced by Morris A. Shirts ' REALTY--WOR·LD® CORRY'S rs;:;) . _. -- -- ~ - 3a7SouthMain 586-2232 . , , 586-8912 • , Residential Building'L ots "Acreage BusinessMountain Property l : Elwo9pCorry 586-9754 . . Steve Corry (Broker) 586-2343 I ris Corry 586-9754 Yvonne Parrs586-9608 Fern Leigh 586-8920 • Vicki Moore 586-7554 Deanna'8erkey 586-2159 Mark Whipple 586-6969 Steve McKibben 586-8461 Karl Church 586-3674 .Jim Baumgart 586-7598 / "to .Liberty, to Justice, and to God". They had no formal flag to fly on it, but the pol~ itself had a Csignificance and meaning. Laws and regulations were voted on by the people and were -then proclaimed ' before ' the Liberty Pole. Those convicted of offenses against the laws were brought before the Liberty Pole to receive and, often, punishment as well. Loopholes we're so arranged in all Ute brush walls that the camp could be defended from every allgJe of 'attack. This ingenious encampment cost - nothing but labor to build, yet it afforded shelter, safety, ,privacy, and convenience. A field of five hundred acres was cleared adjoining the fort on the north and west, and an irrigation canal was.constructed to it. Each man acquired owner.sliip by drawing' for ten-acre block in ,the field and a garden plot near the fort. This field was surveyed by Willilam H. Dame December 23,1851, while the men were building houses in the fort west of the knoll. . Ha)f the . men were assigned to farm , . build fence, work on the ' canal, decided, therefore, to move irrigate, and tend the stock to a safer location a mile while the other half worked west on the south side of Co~ on the iron works' and stock.. Creek, (Editor's note: piled materials. The winter 'Some sources have this season of 1851-52 was not move occuring all in one day severe; and, during these 'also, but the preponderance months, despite the presence of evidence is against it, and of semi-hostile savages, they . the st9rY probably arises' were able to carry on the .from the confusion over' two tasks of fencing, ditching, . "Old Forts",) guarding, building, and The two stockades, from exploring without loss of life Wagon-Box Fort and Little or recorded accident. Fort, were left to serve the . When .the planned fort or community as public stockade was finished (see cort:als; and friendly Indians article by Dr:..Morris A. often made their camps in Shirts elsewhere in this the brush circles. issue.), the settlers aban-., The "Little Fort" was doned this camp and moved their second of three forts to "Little Fort": called "Old. that the pioneer settlers Fort" by some, to the west. would eventually build in the Havi~g brought their CedarCit,Y-area. families from Parowan, th~ While the pioneers were settlers all loaded their , living the these early forts, wag 0 n s wit h the i r history was in the making. belongings and moved On Septemb~r 30, 1852, they together in one day first fired the furnance and, sometime in April of 1852. the first iron made west of Later, concern arose as to . the Mississippi Flowed free the exposure to the lndians and clean into a sandbox on top of the knoll, from mold. Througtl numerous ~hich vantage .. point they obstacles forced the eve~ could observe the settlers' tual abandonment of thIS every move. They realized, original iron foundry, the too, that their water supply spirit of the original Iron could easily be diverted. in Mission Pioneers in still felt case of trouble. They in our·community today. . |
