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Show WPA Historical Survey Workers Find Valuable Documents On County History tly HUGH O'NEIL WPA historical record surrey workers searching through flies of old records In public buildings build-ings and documents In the hands of Individuals have been able to locate many a record dealing with the early history and settlement of Washington county. Washington county waa settled long before the county was organized. organ-ized. George W. Sevy, John D. Lee, and James, William and Hervny A. Pace, In the spring of 1852 settled Harmony; later called Old Harmony, because the settlement was later moved. For some years It was In Kane county, but due to clianges made In the boundry lines of the State, at a later date, many important im-portant places were Included in Washington county. In the early days lack of good roads hampered the settlers In their intercourse with other sections sec-tions of the State. The industries indust-ries for which the country and ' climate were most suited, could not thrive, because there was no market, and no means of transportation. trans-portation. At Washington City in the 70's a woolen mill was constructed and operated for many years. Washington Wash-ington was Incorporated February Febru-ary 18. 1870, and in 1884 had an L D S Church of which Marcus Funk, was the Bishop. It had two schools with an attendance of sixty-three pupils in 1883. St. George was Incorporated January 17th, 1862. In 1884 T.h o m a s J u d d , W. Granger Charles H. Terry, and David H. Cannon, were the Bishops of the five L D S Churches, while Rev. A. B. Court, was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church. 167 pupils pu-pils attended the four district and one Presbyterian school. St. George was the summer home of Pres. Brighanv Young during the early days. The ground for the site of the LDS Temple was broke by Brigham Young and George A. Smith on the 9th of April, 18 71, and the building was dedicated January 1st ,1877. |