The Melancthon Wheeler Burgess home, built in 1862, was the first house completed in St. George. Lumber was cut by hand with a cross-cut saw and hauled twenty-two miles from Pine Valley by ox team. Note adobe lean-to. No longer standing; for years the house appeared much as it does in the picture surrounded by its luxuriant and charming gardens.
Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 29, Number 3, 1961
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