Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Oldest Public Building in Mt. Pleasant, Utah - - - Destroyed by Pleasure Seekers in 1909

If you double click to enlarge this picture you will see Mt. Pleasant Main Street with Lundgren Dentist Office, A Furniture Store, Blacksmith Shop and Window signage "The New Resort". We can't read the poster on the building itself. In the Mt. Pleasant History written by Hilda Madsen Longsdorf, it tells us that the second Z.C.M.I. was built on this corner of State Street and Main. It also says it was a log cabin. Could this be it - or is this an earlier or later store?

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In February 1869, the Mt. Pleasant Z. C. M. I. was organized. It was a co-operative organization patterned after the Z. C. M. I. that was organized the year previous in Salt Lake City, under the instructions of President Brigham Young, who at that time pointed out to the people the necessity and the benefits of such institutions. The Mt. Pleasant Z. C. M. I. began business in a small room, in a log building, afterwards known as Anderson's Blacksmith Shop, on the east side of State Street, about Third South. Here Anthon H. Lund served as clerk. After a time, the Company erected a log building on the southwest corner, intersection of State and Main Street. p 129 (Hilda Madsen Longsdorf)

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