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HIST0RY OF
TWIN CREEKS (GEORGETOWN) ID
MANY OF THE FOLLOWING WRITTEN ACCOUNTS HAVE BEEN TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION IN THE COMPILING OF THIS HISTORY AND THEY ARE:
HISTORY OF GEORGETOWN ID RELATED BY BISHOP ALMA HAYES TO
ENEZ T. HOFF 20 JUN 1915 FOR THE 1ST BEEHIVE SWARM
A HISTORY OF GEORGETOWN 1871..BY LOLA HOSKINS
HISTORY OF GEORGETOWN NO NAME
EARLY HISTORY OF GEORGETOWN...
DEDICATION & TALK OF DUP PLAQUE AND HALL. . .MARVIN E.CLARK
INFORMATION ANDREW JENSEN'S LIBRARY
HISTORY OF GEORGETOWN RELIC HOUSE
NEWSPAPER CLIPPING FROM THE NEWS EXAMINER
GEORGETOWN'S BEGINNINGS...TIDBITS OF TIME..J.PATRICK WILDE
PIONEER MOTHERS OF GEORGETOWN
HISTORY OF GEORGETOWN WALTER E. CLARK...NEWS EXAMINER
HERITAGE THE GEORGETOWN CREEK WATERSHED STORY
EARLY HISTORY OF PIONEERS JUNE 20TH 1915...ALMA HAYES...
INCLUDING INFORMATION BY CHARLOTTE SMIT BACON...
INFORMATION FROM LES BARKDULL
THE FIRST WE KNOW ABOUT GEORGETOWN ID WAS IN 1853 WHEN GEORGE SMITH, WHOM WAS AFTERWARDS A RESIDENT OF THIS TOWN(D-7), ON HIS WAY TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, FOLLOWING THE OLD OREGON TRAIL, CAMPED HERE ON THE 1ST OF JUNE AND THE SNOW WAS A FOOT DEEP.
IN 1863 PEOPLE CAME FROM UTAH AND SETTLED FISH HAVEN ID, PARIS ID AND OTHER IDAHO TOWNS NEAR BY. IN THE FALL OF 1863 MEN CAME HERE TO SETTLE BUT THOUGHT IT TOO COLD, SO WENT TO FISH HAVEN ID.
IN THE SUMMER OF 1869 BRIGHAM YOUNG CAMPED HERE ON HIS WAY FROM PARIS ID TO SODA SPRINGS ID. AFTER HE GOT BACK TO SALT LAKE CITY UT IN THE TABERNACLE AT AN OCTOBER 1869 CONFERENCE HE CALLED FIVE MEN, DAVID HESS(J-4) WHO WAS ACCOMPANIED BY GEORGE L. SMIT(H)(A-1) WHO WORKED FOR HIM, JAMES LOWND(I-2), EZRA T. CLARK AND HIS SON JOSEPH CLARK(I-18), JACOB HESS AND HENRY A. LEWIS(E-15) ALL FROM FARMINGTON UT, TO GO IMMEDIATELY AND MAKE A SETTLEMENT IN THIS AREA.(H59)
THEY DROVE TWO COVERED WAGONS FROM FARMINGTON UT BY WAY OF SODA SPRINGS ID TO A NARROW VALLEY MARKED BY TWO CREEKS OF NEARLY EQUAL SIZE RUNNING FROM THE CANYONS ON THE EAST TO THE BEAR RIVER ON THE WEST.(H59)
THEY BUILT A CABIN ON ONE OF THE CREEKS AND DAVID HESS AND EZRA T. CLARK AND JOSEPH CLARK STAYED HERE ALL WINTER AND GOT SAW LOGS TO BUILD HOUSES FOR THE PEOPLE WHO CAME IN THE SPRING. THE OTHERS RETURNED BACK TO FARMINGTON UT.(H59)