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Show & - i5 By VES HARRISON ' We have no public meeting to report on in July or August, so we want to tell you about an ambitious project which our membership chairperson, Dolly Clayton, suggested sug-gested and which was enthusiastically enthusiastic-ally accepted by the officers. BY WAY of leading up to this project, many of you will recall last year, tacked on the outside of our booth at the Centerville Festival of the Fourth, was a large hand-drawn hand-drawn map of Centerville, Davis County, Utah, showing the location loca-tion of residences within the limits of Centerville Ward in the year 1890. This map was compiled from blueprints of Utah Light and Ry. Co., SL & O., and OSLRR, originals origin-als of which were drawn to a scale of 400 feet to one inch by George A.B. Mclntyre. Our map was later copied to a scale of 400 feet to two inches by Mary Ila Flinders. THERE WERE 182 homes in Centerville then, and the entire town encompassed just the one ward. This map caused a great deal of interest among Centerville Fourth of July celebrants last year, among old and young alike, and so we are reproducing it here as best we can, although the reduction in size is extreme. In order to make the numbers of the locations legible, we have renumbered re-numbered them on the "Clipper" photograph, and you can trace the occupants of these homes in 1890 from the following list: 1 . James Rose; 2. William Trem-bath; Trem-bath; 3. Pierotti; 4. John Tree and Marsden; 5. Harold Smith; 6. Whitmore; 7. Melvin H. Randall; 8. Thomas Timms; 9. Orin H. Randall; Ran-dall; 10. Alice Rich; 11. Eliza Rich; 12. Diana Rich; 13. Joseph Walton; 14. Kemp; 15. Residence empty; 16. Ira Porter; 17. Samuel J. Coombs; 18. Annie E. Brown (Allwood); 19. James Brown. 20. Samuel Rigby; 21. Luther iil?.' '.CTK?.' '.IKWf 5W' W Dalrymple; 22. Ezra T. Benson; 23. Lizzie Woolley; 24. Raguel Barber; 25. Levi Wise; 26. Sam Linge; 27. Don Major; 28. Fred Butler; Bu-tler; 29. Mercy Smith; 30. John Backman; 31. Fred Burgin; 32. Barber; 33. John J. Smith; 34. Henry Hen-ry Barber; 35. Josephine Evans; 36. Walter Duncan; 37. Cluff; 38; Dave Linge; 39. Horton Evans; 40. Celia Roberts. 41. Charles Everett; 42. Carl Smith; 43. Annie Whitaker; 44. Alzina Tingey; 45. Laura Larsen; 46, Albert Warren; 47, Alexander Campbell; 48; Benjamin Brown; 49. Fred Walton; 50. Emily Deuel; 51. Sarah Wayman; 52, Horace Drake; 53. Thomas J. Brandon; 54. Reading (Billy Williams); 55. J. Porter; 56. Fred Rich; 57. F. Benson; Ben-son; 58. J. J. Cherry; 59. Chas L. Smith; 60. Thomas Harris. 61. George Earl; 62. Lorenzo Schofield; 63. John Reading; 64. Elbert O. Reading; 65. Henry Rampton; 66. Lizzie Adams; 67. Walton; 68. Phoebe Evans; 69. Mary J. Smith; 70. Robert Smith; 71. David F. Smith; 72. Arthur Smith; 73. John Tolman; 74. Elizabeth Eli-zabeth Whitaker; 75. John Coles; 76. Henry Cleveland; 77. Joe Evans; 78. Brigham H. Roberts; 79. Worsley; 80. Old Spencer Home. 81. Agnes Rigby; 82. William Rockwood; 83. Ole Petersen; 84. Edith Drake; 85. W.R. Pickering; 86. Robert Achurch; 87. Herbert R. Streeper; 88. George Rollins; 89. Charles O. Rollins; 90. Charles Duncan; 91. Alvin Duncan; 92. John Duncan; 93. Archibald Duncan; Dun-can; 94. James Savage; 95. Joseph Rollins; 96. William Cheney; 97. Zacheus Cheney; 98. Roy Cheney; 99. Amanda Cheney; 100. William H. Streeper. Jr. 101 . Charles Parrish; 102. Parley Parrish; 103. Stanley Parrish; 104. George A.B. Mclntyre; 105. Joel Parrish; 106. Chase Park; 107. Frank Chase; 108 Elizabeth Dal-ton; Dal-ton; 109. Hyrum B. Parrish; 110; Joel R. Parrish; 111. S.J. Parrish; 112. France; 113. Ezra Parrish; 114. William Parrish; 115. Millie Smith: 116. Residence unoccupied; unoccu-pied; 117. Franklin R. Smith; 118. Mary E. Smith; 119. G.W. Cleveland; Cleve-land; 120. William Barber. 121. Charles H. Smith; 122. Joseph Williams; 123. Rosetta Smith; 124. Richard (Dicky) Mills; 125. Jos. Betteridge; 126. N.T. Porter (new); 127. Franklin Walton; Wal-ton; 128. N.T. Porter; 129. Alvin Schofield; 130. Malinda Smith; 131. Rebecca Porter; 132. John W. Woolley; 133. Bartholomew; 134. Dave Garrett; 135. Brigham DeLe-e; DeLe-e; 136. Alma Bangerter; 137. Dr. Young; 138. N. Bangerter; 139. Mary E. Woolley; 140. Lorin C. Woolley. 141. Charles White; 142. Jasper N. Perkins; 143. Joseph Hancock; 144. Henry Pickering; 145. F. W. Worsley; 146. Don D. Duncan; 147. John Walpole; 148. Hyrum Drake; 149. Dr. Hadley; 150 Residence Resi-dence empty; 151. G. W. Clough; 152. C. E. Egbert; 153. Cannon; 154. Taylor; 155. C.E. France; 156. Clara France; 157. Frank France; 158. William Wright; 159. William L. Rigby; 160. Lucy Rigbly. 161. Mary A. Ford; 162. Re-i Re-i sidence; 163. Residence; 164. Hyrum Ford; 165. Joseph Ford;' . 166. Jos. Ford; 167. Alvin Ford; 168. Bishop Ford; 169. Ford Brothers; 170. John W. Ford; 171. John Ford; 172. Albert Ford; 173. Thomas Ford; 174. Frank White; 175. J. Thomas Barber; 176. Sarah A. Garn; 177. E. Linford; 178. Otto N. Smith; 179. William Henry Streeper, Sr.; 180. Charles A. Streeper; 181. Wm. Spencer daughter; 182. William Spencer. THE AUTHOR, who first moved to Centerville for one year, some 24 years after the period represented repre-sented on this map, and who came" to stay some six years later, findslt fascinating to pour over this old map, remembering most of the old homes and the oldtimers who lived in them. However, by 1920 many of those living in homes shown on the map had moved into different homes. Of particular interest are the three transportation facilities shown on the map, the old street car line running along Main Street, terminating at Chase Lane; the Salt Lake and Ogden Railroad (later the Bamberger); and the OSL Railroad west of town, now known as the Union Pacific. NOW, TO get back to our project, pro-ject, which is the focus of this article. arti-cle. If the old map of 1890 could elicit such interest in the 1980's, it stands to reason that a present-day listing, with photographs of all the buildings in Centerville would be intensely interesting to Centerville residents a century from now. And so, the following letter will be taken around to each home by volunteers in the near future. As this is a tremendous undertaking, it may be some time before your home is reached. This is not a government gov-ernment survey, nor an attempt to pry into anyone's private affairs, but an earnest and sincere effqrt on the part of your Historical Society to record an important facet of Centerville's history for future generations. THEREFORE, we plead with you citizens of our community to receive our representatives with open arms, and willingly furnish the information requested. THE SURVEY sheet which the volunteer will leave with you, and later pick up, will ask such questions ques-tions about your home as the street address; date it was built, and by whom; type of construction; former for-mer owners or occupants if any; people living in the home at the present time, with their date and place of birth. There is also a provision for you to add any other interesting information, infor-mation, stories, historical facts, etc., that you may wish. ACCORDING TO Dolly Clayton, the photos and information informa-tion of each home will be kept on file, and the file will be updated as new structures are built. She says "Centerville history should not be concerned with just the past. What is happening today is history tomorrow." Dolly says the Society will appreciate being contacted at 298-4252 298-4252 if anyone is going to tear down or significantly alter the outside of any home or building so that a photo can be taken first. |