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Show The Old Stagecoach Inn at Fairfield, Utah County, Coun-ty, built 1854-55, has been restored to its former appearance ap-pearance and furnished in period style as a Utah State Park historic site. Picnic groves are in rear of old building. OLD STAGECOACH INN AT FAIRFIELD DEDICATED SATURDAY AS STATE PARK Old Stagecoach Inn at Fairfield, Utah County, rebuilt re-built and refurnished in mid-nineteenth century style, has been opened to the public as a State Park and Historic Museum, following formal dedicatory ceremonies held on Saturday, May 16th. "Pony Express" riders clattered up to its doorstep as they did in a bygone era, members of the Mormon Battalion, clad in period uniforms, posted the colors, and state, county, church and business leaders took part in the ceremonies. In addition to the Inn, built in 1854-55, the State Park includes in-cludes a dozen picnic tables in a shaded grove, the old Camp Floy.d Commissary or Sutler's Store, and the military cemetery ceme-tery dating back to the so-called so-called "Utah War" when troops under Col. Albert Sidney Johnston John-ston were stationed at the camp to prevent a possible "Mormon Rebellion." Utah State Parks nad Recreation Rec-reation Commission Chairman Harold P. Fabian and Director Aldin O. Hayward expressed thanks to the descendants of John Warren Carson, whose gifts of the building and land made the park possible. Most of the period furniture in the structure was likewise donat-'' ed, with Mrs. O. Preston Robinson Rob-inson handling the decoration. Millard Fillmore Maynard Jr. of Tooele, Worshipful Master of Rocky Mountain Lodge No. 7, Free and Accepted Masons, spoke briefly about, establishment establish-ment of Utah's first Masonic Lodge at Camp Floyd in the period immediately preceding the Civil War. Utah County Commissioner Marion Hinckley Hinck-ley expressed thanks for the county-state cooperation involved in-volved in setting aside the historic his-toric site as a state park, and Major Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, Utah Adjutant General, gave a 1 brief history of Camp Floyd ' and its military past, recalling a period when its troop contingent con-tingent outnumbered residents of the county and region. In a fascinating business sidelight, John M. Wallace, Chairman of the Board of Walker Bank & Trust Co., Salt Lake City, told of establishment establish-ment of the first Walker Bros. Store as an outgrowth of the sale of Camp Floyd commissary commis-sary merchandise when the federal troops moved out. Located on Utah State Highway High-way 73, some 15 miles west of Lehi and accessible via both Redwood Road and U S 91, the new Stagecoach Inn State Park is expected to prove popular with picnic groups from both southern Salt Lake County and the Provo area. |