Leland Sesquicentennial ~ Leland, Utah - Community Commemoration on Waymarking.com

This area of Utah County was brought under cultivation and
irrigation in the mid-1850's. A survey in the 1860's known as the
"New Survey" designated where permanent roads and irrigation
ditches would be.

Leland has always been a highly productive irrigated
agriculture area. Major crops have been barley, wheat, corn,
sugar beets and alfalfa. Canning crops were peas, lima beans,
and sweet corn. Beef and dairy cattle are the major livestock.

LDS Church records stated that it was originally the South Branch
of Spanish Fork 2nd Ward and later the Riverside Branch, 2nd Ward.
On April 29, 1900, LDS Apostle Reed Smoot officially organized a
new ward. Those present selected the name "Leland", named after
Leland Stanford, founder of Leland Stanford University.
Membership of the new Leland Ward was 224.

Andrew Jensen, Church Historian, in 1900 recorded, Leland Ward
consists of Latter-day Saints residing in a farming district lying
southwest of Spanish Fork. The center of the ward or the place
where Leland school house stands, is a certain point on the
county road about 1/2 mile south of the Spanish Fork River or
2 1/2 miles, by nearest road from the center of Spanish Fork.
The ward extends from the school house about 2 miles east,
2 miles south, 1 mile west, and 1 1/2 miles north; in other
words, the ward extends from north to south about 4 miles,
from east to west about the same distance, making the area
of the ward something like 4 miles square.

Nearly all of the inhabitants with in the limits of the
ward are Latter-day Saints and meetings and Sunday School
sessions are held in the district school house.

This monument was erected and dedicated as a special
Sesquicentennial project in the year 1997 to honor the stalwart
Leland Pioneer settlers, and recognize them for their
endurance, hard work and perseverance in the settling
of Leland.

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