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Regreening of Cache Valley: Settlement of Cache Valley

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Settlement of Cache Valley

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Landscape view showing homes and barns in the distance
(USU Special Collections & Archives, Raymond C. Somers Photograph Collection P0324 Box 006 Item 314)

 

Mormon settlers came to Cache Valley in the early 1860s as religious migrants seeking to establish faith-based communities. The first years of settlement were challenging. Settlers skirmished with Native Americans, battled crickets and hunger, and struggled to understand the new landscape and climate they encountered. This section contains firsthand accounts, oral histories, and short stories relating to the settlement of Cache Valley.

Cache Valley

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Transcript of a talk given by M. R. Hovey about Cache Valley before settlements arose [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Manuscript Collections, Cache Valley Historical Society records, COLL MSS 43, Box 1, Book 4)
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Dr. Franklin D. Daines’ account of “The Early History of Cache Valley” [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives; Joel E. Ricks Cache Valley Collection, Coll MSS 46, no. 129)
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Memories of Early Days of Cache County, from 1860 onward [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, FILE MSS 389-004)
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Personal impressions from those who took part in settling Cache County [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, FILE MSS 389-001)

Mendon and Wellsville

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“The Settlement of Mendon, Cache Co.,” from fort to town [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Manuscript Collection, COLL MSS 46, Box 4, Fd. 134)
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History of Mendon [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, VAULT MSS 238 No. 117)
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The History of Millville [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Manuscript Collection, COLL MSS 46, Bx. 4, Fd. 138)
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History of Wellsville and its settlers [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Manuscript Collection, COLL MSS 46, Box 5, Fd. 160)

Smithfield and Logan

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Diagram of Smithfield in the fort days [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Manuscript Collection, COLL MSS 46, Box 4, Fd. 155)
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“Memories of the Old Fort Days and Historical Sketch of Smithfield City” [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Manuscript Collection, COLL MSS 46, Box 4, Fd. 155)
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Transcript of memories of Summit Creek, beginning with 1859 [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Joel E. Ricks Cache Valley history collection, Coll MSS 46 no. 154)
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History of the city of Smithfield from 1859 to 1912 [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Manuscript Collection, COLL MSS 46, Box 4, Fd. 155)
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Leonard J. Arrington tells the story of the beginning and end of the Logan Co-operative Institution [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Cache Valley Historical Society records, Coll MSS 43 Box 1, Book 3)
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History of Logan [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, General Book Collection, 979.27 L828-J)
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Joel E. Ricks’ “Early Recollections of Logan” [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, FILE MSS 389-080)
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“Early Recollections of Logan” [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, FILE MSS 389-083)