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Show I ICELAND vt UTAH V(kfmfiSi .jraH S1 : : fomt PERMANENT tCtlMIDIC : V. Y-mJ J XnUMENI IN THE UNITED STATES . .:;.OC-t3 r AND CANADA WAS ESTABLISHED w '-vJ J ' IN I8S5-60 IN WHAT IS NOW ' rSSffl I ir'W, W CAST. PART Of SPANISH E0RK. THE SETTLEMENT WAS MADE BY A 6fol)P Of ICELANDIC MORMON PIONEERS. WHEN THE fIRST GROUP CAME THEY WERE SENT TO SPANISH FORK BY BRIOHAM Y0UN6 BECAUSE A CROUP Of DANISH IMMIGRANTS HAD SETTLED THERE. THE ICELANDIC GROUP, SPEAKING A LANGUAGE NO ONE ELSE UNDERSTOOD. DID NOT SETTLE NEAR THE DANES. BUT INSTEAD IN-STEAD SETTLED THEIR OWN COMMUNITY. ON AUG.I.I938 AN ICELANDIC MONUMENT WAS DEDICATED AT SPANISH FORK. THE MONUMENT, Of LIGHTHOUSE DESIGN, 22 FT.HI6H, BURNS A LIGHT IN THE TOWER AS A SYMBOL Of EARLY ICELANDIC PIONEER COURAGE. |