Beaver Dams/Millersburg
settlement #700272
created 2020-07-31 by bplewe
official name: Beaver Dams
assertion #4006540 by bplewe on 2020-07-31: confidence 100%.
official name: Millersville
assertion #4006565 by bplewe on 2020-07-31: confidence 100%.
official name: Millersburg
assertion #4006544 by bplewe on 2020-07-31: confidence 100%.
started: between Jan 1865 and Apr 1865
assertion #4006541 by bplewe on 2020-07-31: confidence 100%.
ended: 24 Dec 1867
destroyed by flood
assertion #4006542 by bplewe on 2020-07-31: confidence 100%.
description: Small settlement of six or so families, led by Henry W. Miller. After a year, it was abandoned in summer 1866 during the consolidations of the Black Hawk War, but Miller and others returned a few months later. This only lasted about a year, until it was wiped out by a flood on Christmas Eve 1867. Some references are not clear whether they refer to this location or the Mormon Well a few miles upstream where the main road crossed Beaver Dam Wash.
assertion #4006545 by bplewe on 2020-07-31: confidence 100%.
location: 36°54'2"N, 113°56'16"W
assertion #4006543 by bplewe on 2020-07-31: confidence 100%.
belongs to: Beaver Dam Branch (1865)
entity #700273, assertion #4006563 by bplewe on 2020-07-31: confidence 100%.
appears in: Annals Southern Utah (image: catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org, source part: V.1 p.257)
Erastus Snow passes through April 22 1865, describing the setting and prospects in detail
entity #700270, assertion #4006546 by bplewe on 2020-07-31: confidence 100%.
appears in: Annals Southern Utah 1:356
1 Nov 1866: "Permission was given to the brethren to return to ... the Beaver Dams and volunteers were invited to settle at the latter place under the direction of Henry W. Miller."
entity #700276, assertion #4006592 by bplewe on 2020-07-31: confidence 100%.
appears in: Annals Southern Utah (image: catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org, source part: p.388)
24 Dec 1867: "Millersburg, presided over be Henry W. Miller, known previously as Beaver Dams, was submerged by a flood in the Rio Virgen...caused the place to be abandoned."
entity #700270, assertion #4006593 by bplewe on 2020-07-31: confidence 100%.
