ESTABLISHING CEDAR CITY AND THE IRON WORKS
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This bell made in 1855 is the only casting of the Deseret Mining Company still in existence. Once hung in the belfry of the Lunt Hotel and Stagestop and rung to call townspeople for meetings, school, funerals, and dances, it is now at the Iron Mission State Park. (Special Collections, Gerald R. Sherratt Library, SUU; donor-York Jones)
ond story was finished in 1857. The fort occupied the center of town until the early 1860s. Peter Shirts, John Hamilton, and Peter Fife left a wooden structure known as Walker Fort on Sidon, or Shirts, Creek and came into
