Utah Centennial County History Series - Carbon County 1997

THE UNIQUENESS OF CARBON COUNTY J. he uniqueness of Carbon County was evident during its prehistory. The area was one of the few places in Utah to have a large group of people from the Fremont culture settle within its borders.

For several centuries they found the Nine Mde Canyon area suitable for their villages, inscribing its canyons with petroglyphs and pictographs. Subsequently, these Native American people left Castle Valley and the surrounding mountain canyons.

The settlement of Price River Valley by white men and women had characteristics that were both simdar and dissimdar to settlement throughout Utah. The Mormon pioneers who settled the Price River Valley came not through a call from their leaders; rather, they came on their own volition out of a desire to farm the land and raise their famdies. These predominantly young pioneers also were not favorably inclined toward the cooperatives that Mormons previously had tried elsewhere. The early settlement of the valley also differed from its neighbors because of the arrival of the radroad within four years after settlement; therefore, the period of isolation typical in other