Iron County Record | 1955-05-05 | Page 11 | Earliest Anglo Saxon School in West

KNOW YOUR UTAH Earliest Anglo Saxon School in Vest The old Fort on Pioneer Square was the site of the first anglo-saxon anglo-saxon educational training center in Western America. Here, the magnificent position which Utah holds in matters educational today, to-day, had its beginning. Scarcely before their homes in the Fort were completed, a school was started wherein the children in camp could receive educational education-al training. The first classes were held in October, 1817, in a small round tent on the west side of the south extension of the Old Fort (near 3rd West Street between 4th and 5th South Streets). Pieces of logs were used for seats and a small camp table for a desk. The first teacher was Miss Mary Jane Dilworth, aged 17 years. She later married President F. A. Hammond who at one time presided pre-sided over the San Juan Stake of the L D S Church. In January, 1848, Julian Moses began teaching school in his little lit-tle log house in the Old Fort. By November, 1848, a school room 30 by 40 feet square was built to completion on the north side of the Old Fort just east from its northwest corner. This would place it on the south side of the present 3rd South Street, just east from 3rd West Street. Oliver B. Huntington, brother of Dimmick B. Huntington, famous Indian missionary and interpreter, interpre-ter, began teaching in this school in November. 1818, and occupied occu-pied this position until February, 1819.