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poorest, but near by were a few spots of meadow and farm land, on which, with irrigation, a fair crop could be raised. A number of emigrants, principally Welsh and Scandinavian, joined the party, and two years later a new site was surveyed*^ under the direction of Lorenzo Snow. To the town then laid out was after- ward given the name of Brigham City.

A few weeks later a small settlement was formed about five miles south of this point, and in 1853 was removed to the present site of Willard City.''^

On Red Creek, about twenty miles north of Cedar City, a small settlement was formed in the autumn of 1852, named Paragoonah, the Pi-Ede name for Little Salt Lake.^* Six miles south of Cedar City, Fort Walk- er was built, containing at the close of 1851 only nine men capable of bearing arms; and on Ash Creek, nine- teen miles farther south, was Fort Harmony, the southernmost point in the valley occupied by white men/^ and where John D. Lee located a rancho in 1852.


 * '^ Tn blocks of six acres, each lot being half an acre.

^^ The first settlers on the old site were Jonathan S. Wells, who built the first house, and was the first to commence farming, Elisha Mallory, who with his brother Lemuel built the first grist-mill, M. McCrearj', Alfred Walton, and Lyman B. Wells. George W. Ward, in Utah Sketches, MS., 44-5. The city was named after Willard Richards. Jiichards' Narr., MS., 67.

" In December, 15 or 20 families had settled there. Deseret Neivs, Dec. 11, 1852. On June 12, 1851, a company with a few wagons started for this point from Salt Lake City. Utah Early Records, MS., 128.

" This settlement was 20 miles north of the Rio Virgen. It was thought that the route to California might be shortened by way of the fort about 35 miles. Deseret News, Dec. 11, 1852. In addition to those mentioned in the text, a number of small settlements had been made in various parts of the ter- ritory. Farmington, now the county seat of Davis co., and on the line of the Utah Central railroad, was first settled in 1848 by D. A. Miller and four others. In 1849 it was organized as award. Mill Creek, in S. Lake co., was settled in 1848-9 by John Neff and nine others; Alpine City and Springville, in Utah co., in 1850, the former by Isaac Houston with ten others, the latter by A. Johnson and three comrades. Santaquin, in the same county, was set- tled in 1852; abandoned in 1853 on account of Indian raids, and reoccupied in 1856 by B. P. Johnson and 23 associates. The site of Harrisville, a few miles north of Ogden, was occupied in the spring of 1850 by Ivin Stewart, abandoned the same autumn on account of an Indian outbreak, and resettled in 1851 by P. G. Taylor and others. In 1883 Taylor was bishop of this ward. Slatcrville, in Weber county, was first settled in the fall of 1850 by Alex. Kelley, who was soon afterward joined by several families; in 1853 — the year of the Walker war— it was abandoned, the inhabitants taking refuge in Bing- ham Fort, but was again occupied in 1854. South Weber, in the same county.