Hamblin Village

Hamblin Village. . , Hamblin village was located about a mile northeast of here It was settled in 1856 when Jacob Hamblin started a ranch and built a house for his family. Soon after other ranchers arrived including Hamblins 2 brothers Dudley, Leavitt Jacob, Mica Truman, Edwin Westover, Milo Andrus, James Canfield, John Day and James Holt The facilities for ranching were good as well as farming land due to the local springs Drinking water was procured from a clear spring on a hill above the village while the irrication water came from lower springs Their homes were built close together along one street with the church and school at the far east end They made butter and cheese and sold what they could not use to the immigrant trains which passed by on the Old Spanish Trail on their way to California The townsite was surveyed in 1873 and Richard Gibbons was the first Presiding Elder of this Branch of the Mormon church The overgrazing, flooding of the gullies and valley, and loss of the lower spring water caused the people to leave many going to Enterprise Jacob Hamblin received an Indian missionary call from Brigham Young and left for Fort Kanab with his family in 1869 By the end of the century the village had all but disappeared