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Tragedy Strikes Small Farming Communities
December 1, 1938 dawned as a snowy, foggy, eerily quiet day. While a school bus headed through the dense winter storm toward Jordan High School, a loaded Denver and Rio Grande freight train rolled . . . — — Map (db m222703) HM
The coal shed was located near the back door of the house and was used to store coal for cooking and heating. Each room on the ground floor of the house had a small "monkey" (one or two hole) stove that used crushed coal. The stoves sat on a . . . — — Map (db m230375) HM
Constructed in 1898, the Garside/McMullin House reflects the restrained Queen Anne style that was common in rural Utah during the late nineteenth century. Architectural components such as turrets, projecting bays, balcony, porches, and corbelled . . . — — Map (db m222700) HM
The granary had a unique use and function on the farm and therefore had a unique design. The structural framing members are on the outside of the barn and are heavy to withstand the weight of the grain. The sheating or planks of the barn were on the . . . — — Map (db m230376) HM
Harkening back to the days of the wild-west, cowboys and cowgirls would temporarily tie up their horses to wooden hitching posts. They had to be sturdy so the horses could not pull away. A hitching post is a vertical column with one or more rings . . . — — Map (db m230379) HM
Water was critical for the success of Utah pioneer families and their farms. As early as 1850, Brigham Young spoke at meetings about the need for irrigation for the area west of the Jordan River. In addition to many individual wells, the settlers . . . — — Map (db m230373) HM
Family members of all ages took part in the sheep shearing each year. After the older ones sheared the wool from the sheep, the children's job was to fill long cloth bags with handfuls of the thick fibers. The bags were 8 to 10 feet long. The . . . — — Map (db m230377) HM
Every day, fresh milk from the Holt farm was stored in large metal cans, which stood in the cement vat inside this building. Outside the west wall of the milk house was an underground well and pump, which was used to pump cold water though a small . . . — — Map (db m230380) HM
The Samuel Elijah Holt Farm, with its buildings dating from 1907 to c. 1930, is one of the last surviving examples of an active homestead built by early settlers of South Jordan. Mr. Holt, born August 30, 1868, purchased this farm from his father, . . . — — Map (db m230411) HM
Samuel Elijah Holt was born on August 30, 1868, five years after his family arrived from England. The family lived in a one-room log cabin on the bank of the Beckstead Ditch (east of the South Jordan cemetery). Samuel's childhood days were spent . . . — — Map (db m230381) HM
Henry Beckstead selected land immediately west of the first meetinghouse in South Jordan for use as a "burying ground." The land was donated by James Oliver, an early settler in South Jordan, and is the site of the south Jordan cemetery at 1055 West . . . — — Map (db m222705) HM
In 1859, George A. Smith sold his Mexican Land Grant to Alexander Beckstead, who, with others, settled ½ mile to the south. They dug a five mile ditch from Jordan River, in operation since completed in 1863. Adobe Community House built, 1864. . . . — — Map (db m34679) HM
In the 1870s with the coming of the new irrigation canal, Matthew Holt, Samuel E. Holt's father, gave permission to have the canal run through the west end of his property. This allowed him easy access to two water weirs off the canal for . . . — — Map (db m230378) HM
The Samuel Elijah Holt Farm, with its buildings dating from 1907 to c. 1930, is one of the last surviving examples of an active homestead built by early settlers of South Jordan. Samuel Elijah Holt, born August 30, 1868, purchased this farm from his . . . — — Map (db m230374) HM
