Spanish Fork (Palmyra)

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  Salt Lake City, Utah, December 26th, 1852 Brother Samuel W. Richards: Your welcome and interesting letter, dated Liverpool September 3, 1852, was duly received at Provo City on my return, December 5th, from Iron County. During my tour I visited all the settlements south of Great Salt Lake, except Sanpete, which I was deterred from visiting by a heavy fall of snow and other unavoidable causes. ... Since April Conference I have twice visited all the settlements from this place to the rim of the Basin, traveling each time about seven hundred miles, and have preached in every neighborhood. I have sought out the location for the city of Palmyra, on the Spanish Fork, Utah County, and procured a survey of three hundred sixty lots containing one hundred rods of ground each, a Temple Square of thirteen acres and four school squares of two and a half acres each; Streets are six rods wide. The public square commands a view of all the settlements in Utah Valley except Mountainville, and is one of the most delightful spots in the mountains. It is sixty miles from Great Salt Lake City and now contains sixty families. Stephen Markham presides. This plot was surveyed in July and the first house built on it in August. A good adobe house thirtyfive feet by twenty-two inside, has been erected.

  Elder George A. Smith

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  • Spanish Fork (Palmyra)

  21 Oct 2026