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Show Lindon Cannery, Landmark of Years, Being Torn Down Now The Lindon Cannery, located on the crest of Lindon Hill on Highway High-way 91, is being taken down. This old landmark carries a very inter esting history, closing, -with the selling of the lumber and the hauling haul-ing of it to Lehi by the purchaser. It was way back in 1898 or thereabouts, that the members of the LDS Church of Lindon met and decided that they needed an amusement amuse-ment hall to hold their socials in. They organized a committee to take their teams of horses to Provo Pro-vo Canyon to cut logs for the lumber lum-ber that would be needed for the building. These citizens stayed in Provo Canyon, cut the logs, trimmed them and hauled them to the saw mill that was located in the canyon can-yon at that time. With the rough sawed lumber they, with othr-r citizens erected this hall. It was then known as the Lindon Amusement Amuse-ment Hall. Many weddings, school plays, socials, annual ward reunions, reun-ions, dances, movies and plays were held in this building, up until the completion of the Pleasant Grove High School. The community commun-ity even had their own troupe of entertainers. Many plays were pre sent ed in front of the painted back drops and scenes, and the old roll-up roll-up curtain was used for a number of years. An old pot-bellied coal stove was the heating unit many persons remember and enjoyed until un-til the building was no longer needed need-ed and could no longer finance itself. it-self. It was at this time that the property prop-erty was purchased by the Lewis family and converted to a cannery. Many local citizens purchased stock in this cooperative cannery and it was a flourishing business for many years. A small grocery store was built and managed along wit.h the cannery and coal was also sold from this location to the local people. Considerable payroll was paid out annually and mostly to local people. This continued until around 19-12 'Alien the cost of labor was high and the machinery was becoming obsolete and the price of replacing it with new and modern machines was far too expensive. Following this period the old building became run down and unattractive. Finally Fin-ally the property was purchased by a Mr. prestwich and just recently re-cently sold to be taken down and hauled away to Lehi. |