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Boulder is a beautiful fertile valley, twelve miles northeast of Escalante in Garfield County, Utah. This valley was by no means easy of access, before modern day roads.
The farming lands in Boulder Valley are rich and productive. The valley is on the Green River slope at a lower altitude than some of the other settlements in Garfield. All kinds of fruit are raised as well as the ordinary cereals and vegetables.
Boulder was first settled by Amasa M. Lyman, jun., and family in 889, but prior to that the country around the Boulder Mountains had been utilized by ranchmen for herding sheep and cattle, grass and water being plentiful.
In due course of time attention was drawn to the Boulder area as a good place for making a settlement, though far remote from any other settlements of the saints. A number of men (all Latter-day Saints) commenced to make roads from Fremont Valley over the mountains with a view of making homes on Boulder and Deer creeks.
A log school house was erected and meetings and Sunday school sessions commenced. On Aug. 16, 1903, the saints in the Boulder country were organized as a regular branch of the Church with James C. Peterson (formerly of Richfield, Utah) as presiding Elder. This branch organization was made a part of the Thurber Ward of the Wayne Stake.
Dec. 31, 1930, membership of the Boulder Branch was 169 souls, including 44 children. The total population of the Boulder Precinct in 1930 was 192.
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