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few of the gold seekers who came to Piute County in the first years of resettlement became disillusioned with mining prospects and began ranching along the Sevier River between Marysvale and the abandoned town of Circleville. When Charles Wakeman Dalton arrived at Circleville with his family in May 1874 he was forty-eight. Charles had five wives, but it appears that only two of them lived with him in Piute County: first wife Juliette E. Bowen and second wife Elizabeth Haskett Allred, who arrived several years later. They found four other families living near the town, but none lived in the town proper. Three of the new ranchers were James Kettlemen, Ransom Mitchell, and Josephus Wade. Kettlemen located on land north of the main road at the lower end of Circleville Canyon; Wade had built a log cabin at the mouth of what would be known as Wade's Canyon; and Mitchell's cabin stood on pastureland west of the river. The fourth rancher may have been James Whitaker, who homesteaded the meadows between Kingston and Circleville. Fortunately the old mill stood intact about a quarter of a mile south of the fort on the banks of the river, enabling the newcomers
