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Beaver was the first town in Utah to be electrified. [citation needed] A hydroelectric generation plant was constructed on the Beaver River early in the 20th century. The plant continues to provide a large part of Beaver's power requirements today. Although, contrary to popular belief, it is not locally referred to as "Beaver Dam!"
Beaver County is a county in west central Utah, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census , the population was 7,072, [ 2 ] up from the 2010 figure of 6,629. [ 3 ] Its county seat and largest city is Beaver . [ 4 ]
Location of Beaver County in Utah. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Beaver County, Utah. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Beaver County, Utah, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National ...
Mill Creek, site of Utah's first flour mill Millville: Cache: City 2,326 2.51 sq mi (6.5 km 2) 4,616 feet (1,407 m) 1860 $78,906 The first saw mill in Cache Valley was built in the area Minersville: Beaver: Town 807 2.18 sq mi (5.6 km 2) 5,282 feet (1,610 m) 1859 $52,434 In honor of the miners who worked in the area Moab* Grand: City 5,366
According to John W. Van Cott in his 1990 work Utah Place Names, the Mormons named more places in Utah than any other group or individual in the state. [1] Salt Lake City Tribune author Davidson noted, in 2018, that "Utah cities and towns were named for at least five church presidents , 10 apostles , 11 stake presidents , nine bishops , two ...
It was built by William Stokes, a Union Army veteran who was previously the U.S. marshal of Beaver. Budget for the building was $15,000. It held the Second Judicial Court which served all of southern Utah, plus county offices and records. It is a three-story red brick building, with a basement of black igneous rock.
The men helped organize Murdock Academy, which was the Beaver branch of the Brigham Young Academy in Provo [4] (now Brigham Young University). [2] The academy lasted from 1898 to 1922. [3] After the Utah State Legislature passed a law requiring counties to offer tuition-free schools, the LDS Church closed the school and sold the property. All ...
Back in Utah, Holladay settled first at Beaver, Utah, then at Holladay Springs, near present-day Santaquin, Utah, where he remained until his death. He was buried in a field near the home where his wife was also buried when she died on April 19, 1877. Their grave markers were moved in 1960 to the Santaquin City Cemetery.