Utah Historical Quarterly Volume 43, Number 3, 1975

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Cut-stone schoolhouse in Spring City. Deseret News photograph by J. M. Heslop, gift of Bob Mitchell.

Spring City: A Look at a Nineteenth-Century Mormon Village BY CINDY RICE

most notable and at the same time visible effects of Brigham Young's expansive colonization scheme is the distinct flavor of settlement that characterizes Mormon country. The nucleated village pattern, the broad streets oriented to the cardinal points, and the housetypes have all served, along with other features, to provide travelers with a distinctive visual experience that can be likened only in the broadest ^ERTAINLY ONE OF THE


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