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Show Ts Newf-er - Outdoor ft Travel Edit'TH i 7 n n nn n n n tlH P. xv&M!mM mm Within the space of a few blocks, visitors to St George can take a stroll through history as they visit significant sites in the Southern Utah city, which is also a jumping off point for viewing view-ing some of the world's most spectacular natural scenery. Begin the tour at the Old Pioneer Courthouse at First East and St. George Boulevard. From there, spend an enjoyable hour or two strolling the streets of early-day St. George, where many pre-turn-of-the-century public buildings and private homes still stand as reminders of a by-gone era. St George was designated the seat of Washington County on January 14, 1863. The courthouse court-house was begun in 1866 and completed in 1876. Brick and mortar were manufactured locally. lo-cally. The building has a full basement which originally served as a jail. The first floor served as offices for country government. Interesting features fea-tures include the 18-inch thick interior doorways, the old chandeliers, chan-deliers, original paintings of Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon, a security vault, the exterior cornice work, and the cupola. Stop 2 on the tour is the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers (DUP) museum, McQuarrie Memorial Hall. Completed in 1938, the building was financed by Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie for the purpose of housing pioneer relics. Included in the collection is a dress made of locally produced silk. Tours are wel- St. Cior.CE Downtown Tou.icQjc " i A Home ' 3"0 NORTH Whitehead 'T i E rastwhOu. Y ! House t kWhileheuiTSisy. ! ! ' w n r X lH"""" ! i Opera House Woollev-hosier g ; -S ' Home W' 200 NORTH T ! .'SrHo,neh'SB Bright Young OWy Gardner fiJ Home W Whiter Home -pfo Home Museum' A"""S0 . 0-"-, ' Old Co News '.. J Home 0fety-tjg-. CI ST. GEORGE BIVP. North i . A r' JL Main St.' u V B.f. Pendleton G Shops fa. Z I Home Y Orson W I I Pratt Judd's Wortheni 2 1 J Home Store Home , '.0-O-H3-V- , TABERNACLE J Mormon ! V Street Windward Tahvnutcle S H Sillool ' t- fl ml Jo 5 T j o Dixie " ' 2 Aeady . 100 SOUTH - S 10 I corned. The St George Social Hall and Opera House is stop 3 on the tour. From 1875 .until the 1930s era, this building was the cultural cul-tural center of the community. Local dramatic clubs and outside out-side players presented refined productions with elaborate scenery. It was later used for offices and storage, but it has recently been restored and has once again become the heart of the downtown historic district. The Will and Juanita Brooks Home (Quicksand and Cactus Bed and Breakfast), is stop 4 on the walking tour. The original two-room rock house was built by George Brooks, Sr., in 1877-78 1877-78 of stone chips and irregular rocks from the clean-up of the . tabernacle and temple yards where he worked as a stone mason. A locust tree in front was planted as a sapling in 1879. Additions have been made to the home down through the years. Enjsy 20 c;i rclsil en cur esSra invsntcry cl r.:d iVintj lV:::i C::Ss sn j vzs wena uisss raxing escis. filsa S-rcssil csys! Ss;-3 p t3 75! LAST 3 BAYS, SALE ECIDS SATUHOAV 5307 RedWing Comfort i: Vasque Clarion Impact 1 Perfect (Or IrTfg. Rs!a!I $133 Sizes B9lhniU D7hnil4 B7CS1I13 R1FS. Recall $102 I7S23 7fcmS)f KCW 3 CC Factory Seconds Vasque Sundowner and Nevt rier Cns Pises Fl:i Crc!.i U:r::r A ", I V92245 I V 192265 6C-J13 1 n:t:d 3tel Wing" Bkoe 248 North State Qrem 224-2550 20 Off Retail Prices Hours: M-F 10-7; Sat 10-6 Historian Juanita Brooks raised her family in the home, and did much of her writing there. Brigham Young's winter home is next on the tour. The original portion of the home was begun in 1869 and completed in 1871. A front addition was finished in 1873. Brigham Young is known as Dixie's first "snowbird", leaving the snow of Salt Lake City behind and spending the winters in St. George's temperate climate, where he supervised the building build-ing of the St George Temple. Stop 6 on the tour is the Eratus Whitehead Home (An Olde Penny Farthing Inn). The building was built in the early 1880s by George Whitehead, and it rests on a lava rock foundation. foun-dation. Erastus "Rass" and Josephine Whitehead raised seven children here. The property of the Gates-McQuarrie Gates-McQuarrie Home, stop 7, was owned by Jacob Gates, the second mayor of St George, and later by Hector and Ella McQuarrie. Mc-Quarrie. Ella rented some of the rooms in the home to "drummers" "drum-mers" (salesmen) travelingto St George on business. Stops 8 through 10 on the tour are the George Whitehead Home (1883); the Woolley-Foster Woolley-Foster Home (Seven Wives Inn), built in the 1870s and said to be one of the finest in St. George; and Dr. Israel Ivins Home, the residence of St. George's first practicing physician. The Anthony W. Ivins Home, Moses Andrus Home, and Benjamin Ben-jamin F. Pendleton Home are the next three stops on the tour. Ivins was St. George's mayor from 1890 to 1894, and he later left the city to help colonize in Mexico. The Andrus home had a rock foundation that was left to "cure" for a year before the rest of the home was added, and there have never been any cracks in the foundation. Community Com-munity blacksmith Benjamin Pendleton mixed his own adobe on the site where Dixie College now stands. He only had three brick molds, so he made his bricks three at a time, dried, stacked them, and repeated the process. Stps 14 through 16 are the Y bodward School (1SSC), winch features an economical use of stones in the pattern of large and small blocks: the Orson PrattKichard Bentley Home (Greene Gate Village); and Judd's Store, purchased in 1911 by the Judd family, who retained ownership until 1985. The George W. Worthen Home (Le Jeans Draperies), stop 17, is an interesting example of simplicity in design and craftsmanship. The Mormon Tabernacle is stop 18. It took 13 years to complete com-plete construction of the building. build-ing. The stone for the three-foot thick basement walls was hand-quarried hand-quarried from the foothills near the city. Red sandstone boulders for two and one-half-foot thick walls were hand quarried from a site near Red Hills Golf Course, then hand cut into serviceable stone. The fact that the Tabernacle Taber-nacle was completed at the same time the temple and courthouse were under construction (not to mention the family homes simultaneously being erected) is indeed a tribute to the industry of the early settlers. Individual chisel marks can be seen on each sandstone block. Dixie Academy (St George Art Center) is stop 19 on the tour. The St. George Stake Academy officially began in 1888 and moved into this building build-ing in 1911. Both Dixie High School and Dixie College were housed here until the early 1960s when new campuses for both schools were built in other parts of the city. Tabernacle Street is the 20th feature of the tour. Many of the buildings along the south side of the street between Main and First East have deep historical significance. North Main is feature 21. Most of the buildings on Main Street between Tabernacle and St George Boulevard are historically his-torically significant, including the Bishop's Storehouse (built in 1887) and the Wadsworth Theatre (1927), still used as a cinema today. The Hardy House (Los Her-manos Her-manos Restaurant), Gardeners' Club Hall, and Rock Building are the next three stops. Augustus Augus-tus Hardy was the sheriff in St George and built his house in 1871., There is a bullet hole in one of its doors. Winding up the tour are the Grundy House (1890), of classic Victorian design; the Gardner House, home of the first ladies' co-op, and later, a millinery shop; and the Old County News Building, which housed the Washington County News after originally serving as a saloon in Silver Reef during the 1880s. The news building was moved to its present location in St. George after the mining town died. Other historic pioneer sights in Sjt. George include the St George Temple, completed in 1877; the Jacob Hamblin Home, located at the west end of the town of Santa Clara just west of St George; and the Washington Cotton Mill, restored in recent years. For more information, contact con-tact the Washington County Travel and Convention Bureau, TheDixieC. r,425 Couth 700 East, St C... . !,UU847"a.or WS tCaorge Ch amber of Com-snercewCOl) Com-snercewCOl) 62S-1G58. |