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Show , ""·CE'DAR FOR,T ' 'Old Fort' r-eference· .. is very confusing . . .., .} ~ . . ; . end tuners of Veoar (Jity relate with pride stories of the ' ~ Old Fort'~ days of theJron manufacturing perioQ of Cedar City. However, as one begins to check out these stories, he soon discovers that within the present city limjts, "there 'were four early-day locations for Cedar .City, two of ~hich were called "Old Fort", and that reference§ to them are confusing. , . . , , ", :'-' p.. N"R"'" G.A"fe . . i- i'- - :r ~ 1- . ;i ........ ! ' ~ '. . Ii . j , 1ll 10-; Some accounts refer to this camp as (he first fort, Ac1\ ld , I' II, tually, it was just one oI. those "temporary" housing I ... developments that endure. It was located in the cove for0 med ,by the knoll just north of town, which provided a . ~ 11 ;: windbreak: This was a welcome shelter to the small party -! I, of ten to fifteen men and boys with their eleven wagons who :£ I! lbad faced a southerly wind and snow. ~ll day on November j.: I' 11, 1851, on their second day from Parowan. Accounts 1 1 . disagree, and there seems not to be one complete list, but one is tempted to the conclusion of a small first party with , G"'~M\lER\.A\~ '.s'--..l...---I.::......;..:.J,----.J-...L...---.J--'--"'...I &A'~ _ _ _ _ _..,.....----._ _ _-, another of sixteen more settlers arrriving November 18, making the thirty to thirty-five mentioned in other accounts. . . - TEMPLE . BLOCK The encampment was arranged by removing the boxes from the wagons and setting them on the ground faCing south in an east-west line. Complete with the typical bowed wagon covers, these served as living, qu.a rters while the fort-stockade was being completed. Small brush and willow "wickiups" in front of the wagon boxes provided " some protention and small cooking area. ,In addition, a larger wickiup with a big campfire provided a' general , meeting place in which to assemble each evening for prayer and instructions. ' The stockade-fort, which was located just around the knoll to the west less than three hundred yards away, took two weeks to build before homes could be erected within it. As sQOn as they ' were completed, however, the men returned to Parowan for their wives and families. Most of - them moved from the Wagon Box Camp into' their new' homes in the safer, more comfortable location in one day. ~ I; r: PUBL\·( SQUARE- srG PUBL\C CORRAL .. II T ~ £ % Ill' .t :t. 1- Ir . - , " z. . re d A \\e.'::l.. , - I'- WOO·o·s " J'on~ thon ~u'jm ; re GAlE. . ,- . x 1\ I; I,"'" . I' . ..: ," or,. c.. j Arthur- , ~ .. ,. I . C . . ~o. \ 9 rrt. II 1l. '" S,ORE . ..!. - .' .. , 7oh" 0 Lees Fa1"ffl Tbe Old Fort -1851 . £'Ilk "I , .~ I' l.i - Tbe Wagon Bol[ Camp iD '("od ; Typically one-dwelling structures, the first houses were c'~ small and crudely built of hewn cottonwood tree trunks and Le ~~ ------------------~--------~I I ~~\INr. c;;."TE. 0 ~ limbs. The irregularities had to be chinked with mud to ,.., " ~OUT ~ H uZ,,make the walls storm-proof.' Roofs were of logs covered GA,'E with willow thatch or 4irt. There seem also to have been '40 to m\ ReservatiofiS: Being Ac'cepted No'crowds. No long waits. . Milt~s ,S't age :Stop Cedar City's Original Steak House . ....': ~:-.~~- "---~ ',£ . . Just good food and nice people. .Sunday through Thursday... Week. .ends we get a little craziet. And that's fun, too. ' . . . ferdinand's . restaurant. Resort, Utah In order . i~~erve a ' table for two ~ ':a 'banquet for seventy, please call 586·9344 and we will ' yladly· reserve the ' best in the house for you. Reservations 586·3135 SUNDAY: BRUNCH is every Sunday from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. ·,,·. . . ._ _ _ _ _IIIIIi-............_ _....._ _....._ _IIIIIIIIiIIII......IIIIIiiIIIi....._ . , Open eVt'nings Friday and Saturday from 5:30 p.m. reservatiofl;S S86-'720~ ...._ _ _ _~_IIiiiiiII. . . . |
