Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2012, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Page 590 BEAVER Beaver, at first called Beaver City, the county seat of Beaver County, is situated in the southeastern part of the county on the Beaver River, from which it derives its name. The river was so called because of the numerous colonies of beavers which built their dams and homes along its course in early days. The town was sur- veyed on April 17, 1856, by James P. Anderson, Simeon F. Howd, Wilson G. Mowers and eleven others, who built the first log cabins and began clearing the land for farming. During the summer some forty families were added to the population and in the fall of 1856 a log school house was built, but in 1862 it gave place to a brick building known as the Beaver Institute. The first sawmill was built a little later on the site afterward occupied by the co-operative woolen mills. On June 23, 1870, fifteen wagons loaded with machinery for a sugar factory at Beaver left Salt Lake City, but it seems that the manufacture of sugar was not a success. In September, 1873, a military post was established a short dis- tance east of the town. This post was named Fort Cameron on April 25, 1877, by order of Assistant Adjutant-General Williams. It was abandoned on April 30, 1883, and the buildings are now used as the Murdock Academy. Early in 1874, a few months after the military post was established, Joseph Field began the publication of the Bea- ver Enterprise, the first newspaper in Beaver County. From 1866 to the admission of Utah into the Union in 1896, the Second District Court held its sessions in Beaver and during those years the city experienced its greatest activity. The court-house erected for the accommodation of that court was destroyed by fire on August 30, 1888, entailing a loss of $15,000. Beaver was incorporated on January 10, 1867, and is now a city of the third class with a population of 2,500. It has two banks, a weekly newspaper, a commercial club, electric light, a system of mu- page 593 nicipal waterworks that cost $40,000, with over forty miles of mains, several miles of paved sidewalks, a public library, well stocked mer- cantile establishments, flour and sawmills, mining interests and a number of cozy homes. Milford, thirty-two miles to the northwest, is the nearest railroad point, with which Beaver is connected by daily automobile stages. The educational advantages are unsurpassed and church going people find places of worship in the Latter-day Saints and Methodist Episcopal churches. ========================================================================== SOURCE: Utah Since Statehood, Warrum, Noble - 1919 S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.