First Families to Settle Levan
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N 39° 33.494 W 111° 51.734
12S E 425927 N 4379081
The first families to settle in Levan arrived in 1868.
Waymark Code: WMB5KT
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 04/08/2011
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Levan
Church leader Erastus Snow helped select a new site for Chicken Creek Settlement, relocated due to unfavorable living conditions. Brigham Young named it Levan. Snow appointed W. Morgan and James Wilson as supervisors. Early in 1868, Wm. Dye built a dugout home. Other first families to move were Jabes Broadhead and Jacob Hofheins. James Wilson, first schoolteacher, taught in one room of the Seth Ollorton home. Wm. Tunbridge, town physician.
Chicken Creek Camp
No. 407 - - Erected 1980
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