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Morgan County


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Morgan County Facts:

County Website: Morgan County
Area: 611 square miles
Population: 12,124 (in 2019)
County Seat: Morgan City
Origin of County Name: after LDS leader Jedediah Morgan Grant
Cities/Towns: Morgan City
Economy: livestock, manufacturing
Points of Interest: Devil’s Slide, East Canyon State Park, Francis Peak, Lost Creek Reservoir, Mountain Green trappers' confrontation site

 

About Morgan County:

The city of Morgan was settled in 1855, and the county was created in 1862. During the Utah War (1857-58), settlers in Milton supplied feed for the horses of Mormon troops stationed in canyon passes watching for Johnston's Army. Lot Smith of Stoddard blocked Echo Canyon, buried U.S. Army supply trains, and stampeded government horses and cattle. Despite such incidents, the "war" was settled peacefully.

Located in a high valley of the Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County is divided by the Weber River. The many streams that feed into the Weber made the valley attractive to fur trappers in the 1820s and to prehistoric Plains Indians and historic Shoshone and Ute Indians. In 1825, near present Mountain Green, trappers of the British Hudson's Bay Company under Peter Skene Ogden and competing American trappers came dangerously close to fighting, but Ogden kept the situation from becoming a major international incident.

 

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The Devil's Slide is a rock formation in Weber Canyon, near the community of Croydon.
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The Daniel Heiner House is a historic home in Morgan, Utah.
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The Morgan Union Pacific Depot.
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The Morgan High School Mechanical Arts Buildings is adjacent to the present-day Morgan Middle School.
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The South Round Valley School, a historic one-room schoolhouse, is now on the grounds of Round Valley Golf Course.
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Porterville Church was built in 1898 and destroyed by fire in 2000.
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Looking east-northeast from near Francis Peak.
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The western end of the Mormon Flat Breastworks, a line of fortifications built in 1857 to defend against "Johnston's Army" in the Utah War.
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East Canyon Dam.
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Curtis Robinson shows the huge cutthroat trout he caught and released at East Canyon Reservoir.
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