Brigham City, Arizona
Brigham City | |
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Ghost town | |
Location in the state of Arizona | |
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County | Navajo |
Founded | 1876 |
Abandoned | 1881 |
Named for | Brigham Young |
Elevation[1] | 4,895 ft (1,492 m) |
Time zone | MST (no DST) (UTC-7) |
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Brigham City
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Nearest city | Winslow, Arizona |
Area | 160 acres (65 ha) |
Built | 1876 |
NRHP Reference # | 78000558[2] |
Added to NRHP | June 9, 1978 |
Brigham City is a ghost town in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. Founded by Latter-day Saints near the present city of Winslow in 1876, it was three miles north of Winslow's current city center, along the Little Colorado River. It was organized as a Latter-Day Saints ward in 1878, but by 1881 it had been abandoned.[3][4]
Twenty Mormon families and fifteen bachelors from Salt Lake City settled the area, and built homes inside protective walls originally measuring 200 feet (61 m) long and 7 feet (2.1 m) high. Flash flooding that washed away the dams and irrigation systems led to crop failures and caused the abandonment of the town by 1881.[5]
The US Census listed its population as 191 in 1880.[6]
Brigham City was one of four Little Colorado River colonies.[7] The other colonies were Joseph City, Sunset, and Obed. Joseph City is the only remaining colony.[8]
Brigham City was added to the National Register of Historic Places as of June 9, 1978,[9] and the remnants are currently undergoing restoration.[4] Thirty-seven of the community's buildings remained sufficiently well preserved to qualify as contributing properties when the community was designated a historic site in 1978.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Brigham City (historical)
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- ↑ Andrew Jenson. Encyclopedic History of the Church. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1941). p. 88.
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- ↑ Tanner, George S and J Morris Richards, Colonization on the Little Colorado: The Joseph City Region (Flagstaff, Arizona: 1977) xiii.
- ↑ Tanner, George S and J Morris Richards, Colonization on the Little Colorado: The Joseph City Region (Flagstaff, Arizona: 1977) 21, 32, 34.
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