Show hi history 0 story records water filling valley in 1862 not nil since 1862 has a flood of 1 uch proportions enveloped the koball agan valley according accordine to plo wang 1101 morgan gan county a history compiled PIled by mrs mary chadwick it 14 1862 the county seat ot of morgan ty was located ili at littleton and the le spring 0 of this year the set anticipated high water which carne be and eventually covered the ley from rom hill to hill to escape the e high water the entire settle anent t has a hollow moved ollre to monday town the that at name being given to settlement b because ec lu se the move ill made on a monday that criag spring the ilot settlers could of the t grain for hour flour because because e J late vale season due to tile the high wr r nor otiley could they get to the ly ow I 1 vas because devils gate waher out by winter they were viere reduced to eating boiled wheat to sustain life and when this supply was almost exhausted exhaust cd they organized a wagon train which was driven through hardscrabble down hog back ridge to the heber C kimball hour flour mills where a supply was wag in crossing the mountains the teams were corn coll polled to cross over ten feet ot of snow jesse C little jr one ot of the older residents of the county tells of less serious high water during world war 1 I when he was forced to cut down a row of 0 large cottonwood trees in front ot of his home to reinforce the river banks in back of hla his present home bome 11 he e also le members hearing his father jesse C little tell ot of tho the high waters ot of 1862 |