In 1879-80 Mormon pioneers built a wagon road between established communities in southwestern Utah and the Four Corners area. They spent six months blazing a route across some of the most broken and rugged terrain in North America. Upon their arrival in the San Juan area, in April 1880, they established a small community called Bluff City. Their first dwellings were one-room log cabins lined up next to each other to form the exterior walls of a fort for security. The fort consisted of an open square outlined by forty to fifty cabins whose doors and windows all faced the center. A meetinghouse at the north end of the fort was used as the church, school, and community center. |
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On the main road in the heart of the town of Bluff, Utah.
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Map Coordinates: 37 17.018N; 109 33.083W. |
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