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== Quick History == | == Quick History == | ||
[[Image:Utah Alpine.JPG|thumb|right | [[Image:Utah Alpine.JPG|thumb|right]] Seven Mormon immigrant families, lead by William Wordsworth, were sent South in the fall of 1850 to a sleepy valley tucked in among the Wasatch mountains. On Jan 19, 1855 the Legislature granted a city charter to Mountainville but because of the beautiful mountains surrounding it, Brigham Young, the Latter Day Saint Prophet, requested the name be changed to Alpine because it reminded him of the Swiss Alps. <ref name="Alpine Yesterdays">Alpine yesterdays - a history of Alpine, Utah County, Utah, 1850-1980 by Jennie Adams Wild. Published in Salt Lake City, Utah : Blaine Hudson Printing, 1982. 415 p., ill., ports. FHL Book 979.224/A2 H2</ref><br> | ||
=== Time Line === | === Time Line === | ||
[[Image:Utah alpine school monument.JPG|thumb|right | [[Image:Utah alpine school monument.JPG|thumb|right]] | ||
*1850 September- Seven families settled in Mountainville and begin to build cabins. Most lived in dugouts or wagons the first winter. Census taker records 29 people living there. | *1850 September- Seven families settled in Mountainville and begin to build cabins. Most lived in dugouts or wagons the first winter. Census taker records 29 people living there. | ||
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=== References === | === References === | ||
*{{FHL|Utah, Utah, Alpine|subject|disp=Family History Library Catalog}} | |||
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[[Category:Utah_County,_Utah]] | [[Category:Utah_County,_Utah]] | ||