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== Quick History == | == Quick History == | ||
[[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. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine,_Utah Wikipedia]<br> | [[Image:Utah Alpine.JPG|Alpine Utah 1923|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. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine,_Utah Wikipedia]<br> | ||
=== Time Line === | === Time Line === | ||
[[Image:Utah alpine school monument.JPG|thumb|right]] | [[Image:Utah alpine school monument.JPG|Monument of original Alpine School|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. | ||