08/01/2024
Thank you to the Utah State Archives for helping us preserve these treasures! And to those who have worked so tirelessly for this cause!
The Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board (USHRAB) has announced its 2024 grantees! Five grants were awarded to institutions preserving and providing access to Utah’s history. We'll spend the next few weeks highlighting each grantee. First up...
American Fork DUP Museum was awarded a grant to build proper map storage for two original historic maps of the Lake City Fort. 🎉 The city of American Fork was first known as Lake City. Due to fear of reprisal for the murder of several members of the Timpanogos tribe at the Battle Creek Massacre on March 5, 1849, Nauvoo Legion General Daniel H. Wells directed residents of Lake City to build a fort for protection.
An early school teacher living in the fort, Eugene A. Henroid, drew a map in 1853 that showed the fort's layout with the names of the settlers and where they lived within the fort. In 1868, a larger map was drawn by Joseph B. Forbes, also a schoolteacher who worked with Henroid, and this map shows additional homes within the fort and the names of other families living in the area years later.
🗺: Digitized copy of the Lake City Fort map drawn by Eugene A. Henroid in 1853.
