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Show 12 BOX ELDER JOURNAL, Brigham City, Utah Thursday, March 11, 1976 p '0 94 00 Earl jp Brlglainm rtto rercrtiDiirdledl Gmm by Sarah Yates This Is tbs ascend article on the building and the life In the eld forts In Brigham City, with the first dealing with the Davis Fort built by the first settlers In 1U1. Gratitude Is extended to Veara Fife, Chlee Peterson, and to the many members of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers who preserved this history. By late spring of 1852 most of the original settlers of the Davis Fort had moved into homes built on farms of 40 to 80 acres surveyed in 1851 by Henry G. Sherwood. However, the Davis Fort still served as living quarters for new arrivals until they could build homes and also as the gathering place (pr meetings and in times of danger. The crowded condition of the tiny fort was such that it was deemed necessary to begin construction of a second and larged fort that summer. The Box Elder fort, which was later known as the Old fort, was built and occupied in 1852. Situated between Second and Fourth North running about 25 rods and between First and Second. West running about eight rods, it was built with cabins together to form a wall of logs at the rear. These homes were meant to be more permanent and had larger rooms, higher ceilings, and better roofs than the first shelters in the Davis fort. Their doors and windows faced the inside of the enclosure. The enclosure had an entrance at the aouthwest corner and another at the northeast corner, with both openings guarded carefully. Lewis N. Boothe was chosen as guard and Harvey N. Pierce as captain. ' During the building of the fort, some of the men were assigned to build a channel to faring water from the nearby Box Elder creek. This channel flowed through the center of the fort for use by the inhabitants. to accomodate the new arrivals. births, and deaths in the days of This extension also included a fort living. Brigham Citys first for the native white child was George log schoolhouse education of the children during F. Hamson, Jr., who was born Dec. 8, 1851. to a family who had the winter months. arrived when there were only At the October LDS conference in Salt Lake City, it was three or four families in the reported that some 206 souls Davis fort. George and Sarah Hamson had added another lived in the Box Elder setcabin to the row of small cabins, tlement. President Brigham Young and their little son was born in called Lorenzo Snow to move to this d cabin. Box Elder as a community The date of the first death leader, and to bring 50 families with him as settlers. A few of isnt sure, but it was that of a these families moved that fall, boy named Nute Clifford who was pitting his dog against that adding to the crowded conof another boy in a fight when ditions in the fort Lorenzo Snow traveled to Box an enraged bystander picked up Elder to look over the quarters, a stick and struck him a heavy but did not move his own blow on the head. He died infamilies until spring along with stantly, and the assailant fled most of the other families who the community. The boy was had answered the colonizing buried a short distance from the fort. call. He did not approve of the Brigham City cemeterys crowded condition of the fort, first burial was that of Philip and urged each family to build a Ettlemen following a wagon home as soon as possible in an accident on Nov. 16, 1854. He area designated around the was buried on a lot in the expresent center of Brigham City. treme south end of the city By the spring of 1855, the first cemetery. plat of the city was drawn after a survey. This original Plat A" The Reck Wall extended from Second North to Late in 1854 Elder Wilford Second South, and four blocks Woodruff visited the Box Elder east and west of Main street. settlement. There were 60 Each lot was one-haacre, families in the process of eight-by-te- n rods, and anyone building homes or having who wanted a lot within Plat A recently moved into homes, could earn the title to the lot of many of them located outside' his choice by assisting in the the Box Elder fort. erection of four rods of the rock He urged that all living wall which was being built outside the fort erect a wall around the city. around the central portion of the city to enclose an area Life Inthe Fort rods. It was to be built of Life in the fort was hard in stone three and one-hafeet matters of feeding a family, thick at the base, two feet at the top, and should be eight feet cleaning, cooking, and maintaining a household. Women high. and girls made soap, cooked Although he urged that it be over fireplaces or open fires begun right away, it was not outdoors, gathered berries and begun until later and not acroots to supplement crops, cording to his plans. made clothing and quilts. It enclosed the area from The men were building Second North to Second South and Fourth West to Fourth cabins, planting and harvesting crops, and helping community East, with each of the streets named in that manner South projects. But life wasn't really grim Wall, etc.). This wall was for they danced to fiddle music considered necessary to the played by George F. Ham son safety of the people, and even and Owen Jones, gathered for those who lived outside its church meetings at the home of boundaries were counseled to Bishop William Davis, enjoyed seek safety inside if there were dramatic presentations in the problems with the Indians. newly-erecte- d home of Lorenzo Snow. Incidents Were Few There were marriages. Actually, incidents with In- dirt-floore- icy-col- community. urged the Brigham Young settlers to maintain friendly relations with the Indians, and the Shoshones in the area seemed willing to trade and be friendly. The rock wall that was intended to enclose the central city was never completed, although work was done sporadically for several years. The north and east walls were finished and were 12 feet high in some portions, even boasting some gun positions. The south Money management class is offered stands. Adult consumer education in Box Elder School district, county extension services and Western Hills Realty are co- operating to offer a money management and consumer education series beginning Thursday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 105 at Box Elder High school. Registration will be limited is requirand ed. There will be a fee of $5 per person or couple. Except of single-parefamilies, the at nt rock wall was erected in the center of the block between Forest and First and Second and Third East as a community work area. Here people could take handwork such as soapmaking, broom making, ropemaking, etc., and work in safety and leave their materials without danger of theft. As the Indian threat South 723-782- 9, tion office, courthouse, phone 1, on or before March 19. and people were more established in their homes, they no longer felt need of forts or protection walls. Gradually the old walls were torn down and the rocks were used in the construction of cellars, foundations, homes and stone buildings in the city. One early writer in the 1891 issue of The Brigham Bugler summed up the contribution of the old wall by saying that its rocks may be said to form the base of Brigham City. ZV King X X ISi cr Csi Cox Springs and Uattress &stts Worth 14.00 si Our ovorydoy Factory to you Pricos .....270M KING SIZE SET 179" QUEEN SIZE SET. Sal undo March 30, 1976 2 St ZZ 24 East lot South CORNY Phone 723-643- 1 SPROUSElnFITZlSTnPFS lf ; arrived in the fall of 1853 under the leadership of John E. Forsgren. 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J) G DO CarpoQs WslsloHfET3iiahrr3lshrioll5) Brigham City, Utah Daily Except Sunday OUR POLICY Mtoum felts 76 South Main 723-758- 6 Brigham City H werWe toouolo supply to m I BiftcBrtijr trita tfvortitM Hama art not m wiim NiMH oo arrival, or for any rooooo, roto etoefci aro available on RMM vMP ro INwrtod to ouontiUoa to jjaurT toefe on wh ich cannot bo iBBiPBfti OPO feat com, feat oowoO. Ploooo ohof oorty. 723-240- fi 723-528- mth Fottose of diminished Another Rock Wall pre-regist- er consumer education cottage, 339 East Seventh North, phone or the board of educa- - if Special FKEE which still Another il? g, since tithes were often paid. in produce or livestock. Also included was space for sheltering LDS travellers overnight. Later a small adobe building ' was erected, then replaced by the brick building tendance of botli husband and wife is requested. lb (For people wishing to com- prove their, credit-ratinpletion of. the course will bei; reflected .toward credit rating ' changes) You may at the lf emigrants AT . ' Became Overcrowded ' i not long before this fort, also suffering from overcrowding, for a company of Scandinavian sod-roofe- d, located between First and Second South on First West. Enclosed were a large grainery, a vegetable cellar, ice house, chicken coop and stable dians were very few in the immediate wall was only partially completed, while rocks were hauled for use in building the west wall but it was never begun. Even though the walls were not complete, they did give the early residents a feeling of security. They were .patrolled when the occasion seemed to merit it. There were some other rock enclosures within the city. One was built east to west on either side of the Tithing House 4 Ezxa |