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Brigham City Mormon fort settlement

Ghost town Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: pottery sherds, household items.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1876-1881 Little Colorado River Mormon colony

One of four Mormon colonies on the Little Colorado River, settled in 1876 by about twenty families inside a stone wall 200 feet long and 7 feet high; it had 191 people in 1880. Floods washed out its dams and it was abandoned by 1881.View source →

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