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Show mm wmm.. PM Sugar House Sermoncttes b'y E. Cecil McGavin M , This is the fifth in a series of articles on the early day history of Sugar House. The scries is presented under the sponsorship of Sugar House Camp, Sons of Utah Pioneers. Sugar House Ward originally original-ly embrased all the territory embraced all the territory from the foot of the mountains to the Jordan River. No ward in the church has been the parent of so many divisions and subdivisions as the bid . Sugar House Ward. About thirty of the present Salt Lake City wards were once Includ-. ed in ' the area originally known as Sugar House ward. In 1873 a post office was established es-tablished in the Sugar House area, called the Paper Mill Station, Sta-tion, yet this new landmark under a new name could not obliterate the old, that seemed seem-ed destined to stick as long as there were people in the area who recalled the fact that back in pioneer times, an attempt had been made in manufacture sugar in that community. The manufacture of nails, buckets, paper pulp, and the use of the old sugar mill building as a machine shop i had been far more successful I and lucrative than had its use as a place for the manufacture manufac-ture of sugar, yet none of these names seemed to stick as the name of the building or the community that had grown up about it. Institutions may come and go, new names appear ap-pear on he scene for a few years and then be replaced by others, but the good old name Sugar House came to stay when the pioneers invested a vast amount of money in an enterprise that became a glorious glori-ous experiment in this community com-munity . The connotation of that grand old name shall ring through the years, calling up hallowed recollections of the past. It is entwined with the sainted and hallowed stories of the pioneers as much as the log cabin and the covered wagon. In the following articles we shall tell in detail the story of that great industrial experi-mcn experi-mcn along Canyon Creek the story of the old sugar mill that gave its name to this community. |
