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Show Speck fofes To Mark 90th Anniversary Of the Founding of Springville Settlement Unveiling of Pioneer Marker Indicating Mill Sites To Highlight Day's Activities The ninetieth anniversary of the founding of Springville will be observed in conjunction with homecoming here Wednesday, September 18, under the direction of the Sons and Daughters of the Pio-nccrs. Pio-nccrs. i Highlight of the celebration will be the unveiling of a Dioneer monument to mark the sites of the first cotton mill in Utah, erected in' 1863, and the first flour mill in Utah county in 1851. M. W. Bird, captain of the Sons and Daughters of the Pioneers, and chairman of the program, announces an-nounces the following program: "A Tribute to Utah Pioneers," by Creed Haymond; address of wel-com, wel-com, Mayor A. 0. Thorn; remarks by a member of the state central company; remarks by a member of the Utah county company; histories his-tories of the first flour mill and the first cotton mill will be given. Charlotte Houtz and Helen Reynolds Rey-nolds will unveil the marker, and Claude Salisbury will dedicate it. M. W. Bird will introduce visitors visit-ors and early pioneers and Josie Alleman, general chairman of the celebration, and captain of Camp Aaron Johnson, Daughters of the Pioneers, will conduct the program. pro-gram. Musical numbers will be given by Eliza Thorne Bringhurst in the forrn of vocal solos and group singing of "God Bless America" and "Come, Come Ye Saints" will be conducted. I Aaron jounsuu wao -the company that founded the settlement, set-tlement, September 18, 1850; and included in the company were Myron My-ron N. Crandall, John W. Deal, Amos S. Warren and brothers, and Richard Bird and their families. On that historic day, the wagon train stopped at noon at Bullock's Springs, south of Provo, and at about 2 o'clock p. m. drove down across the Big Pasture, crossing Spring Creek and arriving on the old Fort plat at 3 p. m. Those pioneers pio-neers immediately began work on a fort to protect themselves from the Indians, as well as on rude homes to form the nucleus of the city. After ninety years of progress, 1 on September 18 Springville will 1 pay tribute to those early pioneers ' who drove into the present site of Springville and founded the settlement. The pioneer marker to be unveiled un-veiled will be located on the state highway on Spring Creek just north of the State Fish hatchery. It was designed by Lew Whitney and is being erected by Virgil Hafen and Mack Whitney. The marker will indicate the sites of the first flour mill in Utah county, built in 1851 by Jacob Ja-cob Houtz, and the first cotton mill in Utah, built in 1863 by Jackson Stewart, William Bringhurst Bring-hurst and Jacob Houtz. The cotton mill was later turned turn-ed into a woolen mill, which burned burn-ed down in 1914. |
