Wards and Branches of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Frisco, Beaver County, Utah

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History timeline (1881-1911) and records of Mormon congregations in the mining towns of Frisco and Grampton, Beaver County, Utah.

Source of information: Jenson, Andrew. Encyclopedic History of the Church]. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1941), p 269-70. Online through BYU Books. (Free) Text searchable. Also available through Ancestry.com ($).

Boundaries[edit | edit source]

While active, the congregation consisted of the mining towns of Frisco and Grampton.

It is the terminus of a branch of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad. The town depended upon the Horn Silver Mine.

History Timeline[edit | edit source]

  • 1881, June 27. Organized as a branch.
  • 1882, March. 36 people belonged to the branch. "It seems that this first branch organization was not continued...."
  • 1897, April 25. Reorganized. They met alternately at the school house in Frisco and the hall at Grampton.
  • 1905, January 22. Frisco was organized as a ward.
  • 1911. The mines were closed and most of the saints moved away. Those that remained were transferred to Milford Ward.

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