Payson, first settled in 1850, was incorporated January 21, 1852 with David Crockett as mayor. In 1870, during the administration of Mayor Orrawell Simons 1866-75, a City Hall, Payson's first brick building, was erected 377 feet west and 14 feet . . . — — Map (db m148814) HM
400 North is a historical street. It was the route used by pioneers entering the valley Oct. 20, 1850. James Pace was the captain whom the city of Payson was named for the street was given the name of “Cow Lane” by early settlers as it was the . . . — — Map (db m272745) HM
This is a two-sided marker
Front Side:
Two hundred years ago, while thirteen eastern colonies were giving birth to the United States of America, a small party of Spanish explorers was forging its way through the vast expanse of virgin . . . — — Map (db m148811) HM
In memory of Alexander Keele Payson pioneer. Killed on guard duty near here July 18, 1853 by an Indian feigning friendship. Opening of the Walker War. — — Map (db m272746) HM WM
The John Dixon House, constructed in 1893-1894 is an excellent Utah example of the Richardsonian Romanesque design on a residential building. The house was constructed for John Dixon, a native of Payson and important figure in the state's livestock . . . — — Map (db m148793) HM
The fort was 60 rods square with corners built of logs forming a buttress. Adobe, rock and mud walls
stood 8 feet tall, 4' wide at the bottom and 2' at the top. On a rock foundation with a deep 4' trench
around the outside. It was built during . . . — — Map (db m148786) HM
The fort was 60 rods square with corners built of logs forming a buttress. Adobe, rock and mud walls
stood 8 feet tall, 4' wide at the bottom and 2' at the top. On a rock foundation with a deep 4' trench
around the outside. It was built during . . . — — Map (db m148787) HM
Payson was settled Oct. 20, 1850, when a group of Mormons consisting of James Pace, John C. Searle, Andrew J. Stewart with their families, and two boys, Allison Hill and Nathaniel Haws, arrived at the northwestern extremity of the city. The creek on . . . — — Map (db m148795) HM
Erected in 1925, this building has served several businesses including Knowles Garage, JC Penney Company and Whitelock Antiques. Commonly known as the JC Penney Building, the building was updated during 2000 and subsequently purchased by Payson City . . . — — Map (db m148797) HM
This Pioneer Millstone designates the centennial of Payson City, founded Oct. 20, 1850, by Mormon settlers. Near this monument on Peteetneet Creek was erected the first public building, a log cabin used as a school, church and fort. A sawmill and . . . — — Map (db m148813) HM
“...a considerable Portion of the land between the Spanish Fork and F.P. [Fort Peteetneet] is low and marshy and Bad to cross especially with heaby loade waggons...some of the waggons required 9 yokes of oxen to get them through the sloughs 0 this . . . — — Map (db m272747) HM
Built in 1874 and expanded c. 1894 and 1912, the Samuel Douglass House is architecturally significant in Payson. It is an excellent local example of the vernacular interpretation of nineteenth-century Greek and Gothic Revival styles subsequently . . . — — Map (db m148792) HM
The fort was 60 rods square with corners built of logs forming a buttress. Adobe, rock and mud walls
stood 8 feet tall, 4' wide at the bottom and 2' at the top. On a rock foundation with a deep 4' trench
around the outside. It was built during . . . — — Map (db m148789) HM
The fort was 60 rods square with corners built of logs forming a buttress. Adobe, rock and mud walls
stood 8 feet tall, 4' wide at the bottom and 2' at the top. On a rock foundation with a deep 4' trench
around the outside. It was built during . . . — — Map (db m148790) HM
You are a fool for fighting your best friends, for we are the best and the only friends that you have in the world" wrote Brigham Young to the Ute Indian Chief Walkara in 1853, after the latter had engaged the settlers of Utah in their first major . . . — — Map (db m148815) HM
