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purchased by Utah Natural Resources Parks and Recreation. Today the park has been upgraded to have a 9-hole golf fishing, boating, and hiking. rocks with plaques on each. The underlined words in the fully understand: "DANIEL BUCKLEY FUNK ARRIVED IN A BARREN SANPETE VALLEY IN 1849. HIS VISION OF A LAKESIDE RESORT TRANSFORMED THE VALLEY INTO WHAT YOU SEE TODAY. FUNK SECURED PROPERTY FROM THE UTE CHIEF ARAPIEN, BUILT A LEVEE BY HAND AND DIVERTED SIX MILE CREEK TO FLOOD THE VALLEY FLOOR. By 1873 FUNK'S LAKE RESORT OFFERED DANCING, BOATING, AND FISHING. FUNK'S LAKE WAS RENAMED PALISADE LAKE IN THE EARLY 1900s AND BECAME A STATE PARK IN 1962." Utah Natural Resources Parks and Recreation The Fence . . . Vol. 5, 1973, Page 7-11, SAGA OF THE SANPITCH. A Still Small Voice, Grace Madsen, SAGA OF THE SANPITCH, Vol. 6, Pg. 51, 52. Utah. Marlin Cox, Manti, Utah. SONG OF A CENTURY, c. 1949, Pg. 32. INDIAN DEPREDATIONS, Peter Godfredson, C. 1919. 59 |
