Pioneers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints led by James Edward Pace Jr. first settled what is now Payson, Utah.
The settlement was originally named Peteetneet Creek, after which Chief Peteetneet was named. Peteetneet
In January 1853, Territorial Governor Brigham Young submitted a bill to the Second Utah Territorial Legislature to incorporate Payson as a city. On January 21, 1853, on the last day of the legislative session, the legislature passed the act. Brigham Young signed it. And Payson became an incorporated city within a strip of territory two miles wide on either side of Peteetneet Creek
First School of Payton, Now its a Peteetneet Museum and Cultural Arts Center
Payson was originally named Peteetneet, after a Ute Indian chief who lived near Payson's current location. A monument still stands to Chief Peteetneet at the Peteetneet Museum and Cultural Arts Center, originally the first school in Payson.
Backdrop of snow capped mountains?
ReplyDeleteYes when I arrived in Utah, every mountain still had snow on it, they had record snow fall in the winter
DeleteSpent the night in Payson in '82 or '83 on my way driving back from LA. It was a nice, sleepy little place then.
ReplyDeleteIts probably it a little bigger since that time, its still a small town to my standards
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