Show panguitch settled first in 1863 utah today pan gultch lieh violte valley y and rid the surrounding area gue ig 1 one e of of the most ft tile spots in america producing vita min rih crops and fat at heavy beef rattle cattle hut but its history has its moments 0 of indecision inde c ision and violence too so far as Is known the first white hite men to enter this valley were ere the spaniards who during die the led their caravans along alie U ie old spanish trail atom santa ve fe N at to monterey Montc rcy calif the trail did not come as far south as panguitch turning aig south at the north end 0 of the valley and crossing the plateau at paragonah Para gonah in about 1849 the mormons cormons first vi visited sited the valley when brigham young requested that parley P pratt organize a party to explore southern utah the 50 man group followed the spanish trail south and passed through the north end of panguitch valley in december of that year the part of the valley in which the town of pan duitch is located was not explored until the summer of 1852 when a band of men from parowan carowan were told by the plute indian indians of a broad valley lying at the confluence of panguitch creek and the piute diute river now known as the sevier these men explored the valley but thought the climate was too cold for successful farming la he the winter of 1863 64 a drouth in the carowan parowan drw district forced pioneers of the area to geek seek their lot elsewhere and it was then they moved m 0 ved into the panguitch valley to settle se atle six sir families moved onto the present present townsite and surveyed s their new community naming it fairview fail view some time later and for obscure reasons the towns name was changed to panguitch in march of 1868 1866 church and military officers supervised construction st of a fort at the townsite as protection from indians who had become troublesome according to recorded history the indian problem increased in intensity and finally two brief skirmishes between the settlers and the indians occurred in the valley in april of 1866 military leaders advised the residents of panguitch to desort M or community and te it zay may the exodus wai was started uy by tha th spring of 1870 once more came cam to panguitch Pan gultch V vata ley and church authorities ed d that be b re let on march 19 1 1871 25 nic men aal and two women arrived at the th town tow and found th indians had not dop molested it it was not long until the lie men olk tolk of 0 Ilan guith stained develop ment of 0 the natural resources of the atea tilling the fields build ang it canals cutting timber building a flour mill a printing establishment shoe rhoe and boot shop harness chop shop and blacksmith shop on march 9 1882 when ben the territorial rit orial created garfield county Pari guith was made the county seat on july 19 1 1889 Fane city was incorporated with a population of 1015 persons |