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Site: Clarion
Alternate Names: Sample or N/A
County, State: Sanpete County, Utah
Years of Occupation: 1911-1930's
Status of Site: Open
Classification: Class 2 - Neglected Town
Type: Agriculture
Remnants: Foundations and cemetery
GPS Coordinate: 39°07′20 N 111°53′11 W
NRHP Reference#: N/A
Date of Last Visit: 11/19/2013
A group of Jewish Americans from New York and Philidelphia settled at Clarion, a few miles southwest of Gunnison. The group was led by Benjamin Brown, a Jewish Socialist. His idea was to colonize vacant land in the west with Jewish immigrants. In 1911 Brown bought 6,085 acres from the state of Utah at a price of $11.20 an acre. He also purchased water rights at $35 a share. The going was difficult at Clarion almost from the start. Only one was a farmer, the others were weavers, machinists, and other various occupations, not well suited to scraping a living from the land. Rifts both in the community of Clarion and with the local Mormon population also had a hand in the abandonment of Clarion. Wealthy philanthropists paid to transport the colonists to California. Only two remained in Utah, Brown who became a wealthy poultry grower and founder of the Utah Poultry Grower's Assoc. and Maurice Warshaw who became founder of the Grand Central retail chain. Source:The Other 49ers: A topical history of Sanpete County - Sanpete County Commission
Further Reading:
Robert Alan Goldberg, Back to the Soil: The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah, and Their World (1986)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarion,_Utah
http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/ut/clarion.html
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/...tlement-lives-on-in-Jewish-hearts.html?pg=all
http://thecowlocale.com/2012/12/18/revitalizing-a-ghost-town/
Directions to Get There: N/A
Alternate Names: Sample or N/A
County, State: Sanpete County, Utah
Years of Occupation: 1911-1930's
Status of Site: Open
Classification: Class 2 - Neglected Town
Type: Agriculture
Remnants: Foundations and cemetery
GPS Coordinate: 39°07′20 N 111°53′11 W
NRHP Reference#: N/A
Date of Last Visit: 11/19/2013
A group of Jewish Americans from New York and Philidelphia settled at Clarion, a few miles southwest of Gunnison. The group was led by Benjamin Brown, a Jewish Socialist. His idea was to colonize vacant land in the west with Jewish immigrants. In 1911 Brown bought 6,085 acres from the state of Utah at a price of $11.20 an acre. He also purchased water rights at $35 a share. The going was difficult at Clarion almost from the start. Only one was a farmer, the others were weavers, machinists, and other various occupations, not well suited to scraping a living from the land. Rifts both in the community of Clarion and with the local Mormon population also had a hand in the abandonment of Clarion. Wealthy philanthropists paid to transport the colonists to California. Only two remained in Utah, Brown who became a wealthy poultry grower and founder of the Utah Poultry Grower's Assoc. and Maurice Warshaw who became founder of the Grand Central retail chain. Source:The Other 49ers: A topical history of Sanpete County - Sanpete County Commission
Further Reading:
Robert Alan Goldberg, Back to the Soil: The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah, and Their World (1986)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarion,_Utah
http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/ut/clarion.html
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/...tlement-lives-on-in-Jewish-hearts.html?pg=all
http://thecowlocale.com/2012/12/18/revitalizing-a-ghost-town/
Directions to Get There: N/A
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