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| Laverkin History | | | | | Thursday, April 22 | | Writer's Preface
I attempted to interview a broad cross section of LaVerkin residents and ex-residents but important omissions have no doubt been made. I can only hope that the accounts given are reasonably representative of all families and I apologize to those who have been shortchanged. I thank all those who sh ...
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| Chapt 1 - LaVerkin's Background
LaVerkin’s birth differed somewhat from other towns in the area. It was conceived as a company farming operation rather than as a city of homes and families. Only when difficulties with the new canal tunnel nearly drove the stock company into bankruptcy, were parcels of land offered for sale and se ...
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| Chapt 2 - Settlement
Thomas Judd: The Canal And The Tunnel The rich but dry soil of the LaVerkin Bench was admired as potential farmland for many years but it took Thomas Judd to make it bloom. We are indebted to his daughter-in-law, Maude MacFarlane Judd,8 for the bulk of our knowledge about the town’s earl ...
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| Chapt 3 - The New Community
The little town slowly grew, and by 1904, there were about seventy inhabitants (one account says 65, another 73) and at least two babies had been born, Rosalba, the daughter of Susannah and Henry Gubler, on October 12, 1903; and Moroni, on October 18, 1903, to William and Sarah (Wilson) Sanders. ...
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| Chapt 4 - Village Life Prior to World War II
Vast changes have taken place since the late 1930’s in how people made a living, in how they conducted their household affairs, in their games and recreation, in the utilization of children’s labor for family survival, and in how they dealt with health problems and with death. The list could go on. ...
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| | More Headlines | Chapt 5 - Farming
| Chapt 6 - Religion
| Chapt 7 - From Village to Modern City
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