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Show 24 The Kanab Area Vacation Guide Souvenir Edition Experience History Explore Pipe Spring In October 1858, a small band of Mormon Missionaries, headed by Jacob Hamblin, crossed the Arizona Strip. Led by a Paiute guide, the group camped by a spring at the base of the Vermillion cliffs. According to lore, Jacobs brother, William Gun-loc- k Hamblin, was challenged to shoot the bowl out of a smoking pipe at 50 feet. As a result of the became feat, known as Pipe Spring. In 1863, former Texan Dr. James Whitmore brought a herd of approximately 500 Texas Longhorns to the area in search of grazing land and water. Dr. Whitmore built a small dugout, planted gardens, orchards and grapevines, utilizing the spring water. The Mormon Church purchased the 160 acres at Pipe Spring from Whitmores widow in 1870. That fall, Brigham Young met with local leaders at Pipe Spring, including Jacob Hamblin and John D. Lee. Young stepped off floor plans of a fort to be built over one of the springs. Mormon Church work missions began fort construction in December of 1870. Anson Perry Winsor Mu-tum-wa-- va The Mormon Church sold Winsor Castle in 1896 to David The Winsor Castle telegraph was Bullock and Lehi Jones. used until the late 1880s, when it Built out of Navajo sandstone was replaced by a telephone. Stephen T. Mather, the first National Park Service director, extracted from the Vermilion Cliffs, In 1873, the Mormon Churchs the structure contained two rectanspent the night near Winsor Pipe Spring operation became the Castle in August of 1922 after his houses connected by Winsor Castle Stock Growing gular, high walls with wooden gates formCompany, also under the direction of car broke down on the road near Anson Peny Winsor, who left Pipe Pipe Spring. Jonathan Heaton ing a courtyard. Winsor Castle was completed in Spring in 1875. The Church utilized and son Charles Heaton interested Mather in the site and its 1872 and, with a lack of area Winsor Castle as headquarters for their tithed cattle herd. As part of unrest, never housed troops, nor history. On May 31, 1923, U.S. Presiwas there ever a need to defend the tithing operation, 80 to 100 head the structure. of cattle were milked daily. The milk dent Warren G. Harding proclaimed Pipe Spring a National Several months prior to the was taken into the spring room of structures completion Winsor Winsor Castle, where it was proMonument, making Winsor Castle the first historic structure Castle became the Arizona cessed into cheese and butter. The placed on the National Register Territorys first telegraph station. products were taken to St. George of Historic Places under National for work mission distribution. Throughout the 1870s, famed Colorado River explorer Major Park Service administration. In the 1880s, the operations John Wesley Powell utilized the were placed under the manageToday Park Rangers, dressed in historic costume, provide tours Winsor Castle telegraph to mainment of Edwin D. Woolley, who and interpretive programs of tain contact with Washington, with the help of his wife Flora, D.C. Powell based his survey Winsor Castle.Three of the maintained Winsor Castle and the Churchs cattle. buildings have been restored and party at times at Pipe Spring, furnished in period fashion. gathering area geographic and Congress soon passed laws Historic structures are open topographic information. His forbidding the early Mormon from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily, Church doctrine of polygamy. party was in the area, in 1872 and visitors to the Monument and 1878, while determining Under the Woolley administrashould allow at least one and a boundaries between the territotion, Pipe Spring and Winsor of ries Utah and Arizona. Major half hours for their visit. There is Castle became a hideout for Powell is credited with naming a $2.00 per person entrance fee individuals escaping prosecution for adults 17 and older. the Vermillion Cliffs and Mt. for plural marriage. was sent to oversee construction of the fort which would later bear his name, Winsor Castle. Trumbull. two-stor- y Hitch-- n Southern Utah's Pextent 1ReAtcvKzttt Northern Arizona Is In Western Atmosphere Steak & Seafood KANAB Across from McDonald's Tours Welcome 1 Restaurant 5 pm - 10 pm Lounge -4- 35-644-21 42 Reservations -8- 00-458-351 Stay & Play! Golf Package 6 Available RESTAURANT & LOUNGE FREDONIA, ARIZONA 5 pm - 10 pm 0 Liquor, Wine, Beer, Imports Mon-Thu- r, pull &ac6tcUl Service 520-643-74- 02 3 Miles South of Kanab On Hwy 89A Fri-Sa- t, 0 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. -- 10:00 p.m. Sun, Noon - 8:00 p.m. (Arizona Time) Open 365 days of the year "The Poor & Ugly Liquor Lady" 8 2936 North Hwy 89A (520) (At the Border in Fredonia, Arizona 643-711- |