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Show WEEKLY REFLEX-DAV- NEWS JOURNAL, AUGUST 19, 1976 IS Davis Bicentennial Parade Next Wee By KATHRYN JENNINGS All Davis County residents are invited to join in the bicentennial activites and parade which will be a event on Saturday, Aug. 21. county-wid- e is Farmington where the parade will start. This is fitting since Farmington has been which rebuilt first the built courthouse, Here the pioneers the historical center of the county. several times during the years to accomodate the growing population. Everyone is welcomed to There are many pioneer buildings and relics to be seen in Farmington. The courthouse has been modernized, but is on the same location as the first one, built in 1854 at a cost of $6000. The first hotel in the area was called union Hotel, located at 208 North Main. The Charles Penrose log cabin is now relocated east of the Rock Chapel at 272 North Main. On the old city hall grounds at First North and Main there is the old Academy Bell and the Old Sow cannon, owned by the Nauvoo Legion and brought here by pioneers in 1847. The city hall was the first stake house in the area. To begin this historic Davis County day, there will be a prayer breakfast served at the Pioneer Village pavilion at Lagoon. Everyone is invited, beginning at 7 a.m. Tickets should be purchased the day before at Fair headquarters at Lagoon or at other places to be announced. Theme of the parade, which will begin at 10 a.m., is "Our Heritage: Times and Places, Our Freedom as a Nation; as a Community and as a Person. Children in the parade will form on 200 East near the Monte Vista School, joining other floats and parade entries which will form near the Farmington Elementary School, 50 East 200 South. i ' N. ITl I'll i -- hi ' . v Y I f I ft H.- if n tr' lA" ' - , ' j.' , '.v.v.'.y.v.v.v .4 v x"x!-- ' ! A - ' N H "!f' VvKv, I' " l ij- IjM, k ' V- - ' ;'r 1 There will be special seats available in they will the grandstand at Lagoon for all senior citizens. From there be driven to the pavilion for their lunch. Dean Swaner of Farmington is coordinator of the Davis Conty Fair Bicentennial parade. Cochairmen are Steven Hoth, Centerville; Grant J. Cullimore, Kaysville, and Ed Rogers, Davis County Fair manager. This page, left, PICTURE IDENTIFICATION arriving at Lagoon in days past. Right, an early Farmington home. Other page.Q Upper left. The second Davis County courthouse, built in 1890. Center, First courthouse built in Utah. Served as Davis County courthouse from 1854 to 1890. In 1 picture are, to r, first two unidentified, Joseph Smith, Thomas F. Roueche, Bp. John Stoker, Joseph Aaron Porter and Ezra T. Clark, on horse. The building was two story adobe measuring 35x45 Barton, feet. present courthouse. Upper right, old city hall in Farmington, with cannon. Second right, old rock church. Third right. Brother Goddard and wife in the cake walk, Lagoon, July 6, 1898. Fourth right, Farmington city council in pioneer parade, July 24, 1914. Fifth right, Charles Penrose log cabin. Sixth right, a day at the races at Lagoon. Bottom left, |
