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Site Context And History Of The Orson B. Adams Homestead And Surrounding Area For The Historic American Landscapes Survey, Paul Drake
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
In 1862, Orson B. Adams settled in Harrisburg, Utah. He and his family were part of a movement by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, also known as the Mormons, to create a self-sufficient colony in the west. The Mormon settlers were "called" to establish agricultural towns throughout southern Utah and west to the Pacific and grow crops such as grapes and cotton.
Analysis Of Significance & Integrity Orson B. Adams Farmstead Historic American Landscape Survey, Ladd Schiess
Analysis Of Significance & Integrity Orson B. Adams Farmstead Historic American Landscape Survey, Ladd Schiess
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
In 1862, Orson B. Adams settled in Harrisburg, Utah, a small Mormon settlement in Southern Utah that had been started the previous year. Orson acquired land on the southwest side of town and began to cultivate it. Being on the edge of the Mojave Desert, irrigation was necessary. Orson diverted water from smaller Quail Creek rather than Leeds Creek, which the rest of the town used.
Orson B. Adams Farmstead Existing Conditions Survey, Mandie Zollinger
Orson B. Adams Farmstead Existing Conditions Survey, Mandie Zollinger
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
The project study area is on the site of the former Harrisburg Settlement, in Central Washington County, Utah between the towns of Leeds and St. George, Utah, and west of Interstate 15. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has recently (2001) acquired a 200 acre parcel of the project site. The landscape contains thousands of years of history in a small area, including features from the prehistoric cultures of the Virgin Anasazi and Southern Paiute, settlement of the Mormon pioneers, mining industry, and remnants of a 1950's Hollywood movie set. All of this lies at the southeastern tip of the …