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=== History === | === History === | ||
In 1889 the town of Ammon was originally called South Iona because it was the dependent branch in the south end of the Iona, Idaho. Arthur M. Rawson who renamed the town in honor of Ammon, a figure in the LDS book of scripture, the Book of Mormon. The township as well as the surrounding farm land is irrigated from the Snake River through canals of the Progressive Irrigation District. The township, surveyed into 10-acre blocks, is about half a mile east of Big Sand Creek. Only a part of the inhabitants reside on the town site; the majority of the people live in a scatter condition on their respective farms. The total population of Ammon Precinct in 1930 was 1,103. | In 1889 the town of Ammon was originally called South Iona because it was the dependent branch in the south end of the Iona, Idaho. Arthur M. Rawson who renamed the town in honor of Ammon, a figure in the LDS book of scripture, the Book of Mormon. The township as well as the surrounding farm land is irrigated from the Snake River through canals of the Progressive Irrigation District. The township, surveyed into 10-acre blocks, is about half a mile east of Big Sand Creek. Only a part of the inhabitants reside on the town site; the majority of the people live in a scatter condition on their respective farms. The total population of Ammon Precinct in 1930 was 1,103. | ||
Additional history of Ammon, Idaho and the early Mormon settlers there can be found in: <br>Andrew Jenson. Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Publishing Company, 1941, p. 21.<br> | |||
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