![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was a good location in a number of ways but during the first summer it was evident that the lack of water was a serious hindrance and later the present site of Hyrum was therefore located. David Osborn, who was one of the leading men in the group, laid out a plan for the settlement to the north of Camp Hollow in a rather long swell. A number of the families lived in tents and covered wagons during the first summer. Depressions where these dugouts were may still be seen on the hillside at this particular place. Just west of the present State Highway on both sides of Camp Hollow a number of dugouts were made in the hillside and a few log cabins were built. The spring rises in what is now known as Camp Hollow, near which Mr. With the Wellsville settlement in the southwest of the Valley, Logan and Providence on the east side, Mendon on the west and Smithfield and Richmond to the north, already established, this group naturally turned its attention to the southeast part of the valley where there was no settlement, and decided to take its chance near a spring located about one mile from the present townsite of Hyrum on the State Highway. The roads through Wellsville Canyon, or the Sardine Canyon, could not be traveled that early in the season. A group of about twenty families arrived in the Valley the first part of April 1860, by way of Colinston over the low summit. Hyrum was one of the first towns in the Valley to be settled in the year 1860. Commencing early in the spring of 1860 and from then on, there was a rapid settlement of towns in Cache Valley and a considerable increase of new settlers in the settlements already established. ![]()
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