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Show Iron Mission Footnotes Townsites were shifted here in Cedar City, just east of the present Iron County Lumber, in Sept. 1852," Shirts said. Shirts came to Cedar City in 1959 as a faculty member in the Sl'SC School of Education. "In order to appreciate the city I began to study its history," he said, "starting then an ongoing on-going project ' that has lasted over 20 years." Often called upon to lecture on southern Utah history, Shirts' specialties are the Iron Mission, Mountain Massacre, Black Ridge and the mining boom Silver Keel. He is currently writing a history of the Iron Mission founding that will include between 200 and 300 early photographs. "Iron Mission Footnotes" is an illustrated lecture complete with reconstructed recon-structed maps and slides of early photographs. The Distinguished Lecture Series continues July 1 with Sl'SC President Gerald K. Sherratt spejking on the founding of Southern Utah State College. That lecture will also begin at 12 noon Morris A. Shirts CEDAR CITY - Early pioneer townsites were often shifted from one place to another, and settlements in Iron County were no exception; ex-ception; in fact. Cedar City was moved twice before being firmly established at its present location. "Iron Mission Footnotes," Foot-notes," a lecture about the founding of the Iron Mission and the early settlement of Iron County, will be June 24 at Southern Utah State College. The program will begin at 12 noon in the Thorley Recital Hall and is free to the public. Morris A. Shirts, professor of education at Sl'SC and a historian "by avocation." is the speaker. Dr. Shirts is the second speaker in the Distinguished Lecture Series being sponsored this summer by the Sl'SC Division of Continuing Education. Shirts will trace the founding of the Iron Mission, from a 1849 journal entry about the iron-rich ore deposits in the area by Mormon missionary Addison Pratt to the eventual production of iron just a lew years later. "Many people don't know that the lirsl iron produced west of the Mississippi was made |