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ESCALANTE
Escalante is located in Garfield County and is sixty miles by road southeast of Panguitch.. The valley is six miles long, with an average width of three-quarters of a mile. Southward the valley opens onto a desert extending sixty miles to the Colorado River. Escalante Creek runs through the valley.
In 1866, a group of Mormon cavalrymen noted this valley, while in pursuit of Indians during the Black Hawk War. In February, 1875, William J. Flake and others from Beaver, Utah explored the valley. The first permanent settlers came, June 29, 1875. A number of families who lived on the Upper Sevier were in search of a warmer climate.
The townsite was surveyed, homes were built and a bowery was erected. The flag was raised, July 14, 1876, and the city named in honor of Father Escalante who discovered the Great Basin in 1776.
It was organized as a Latter-day Saint Ward in 1877, when Panguitch Stake was organized on April 23. Andrew P. Schow was appointed in the beginning by Bishop George W. Sevey of Panguitch.. He presided about thirty seven years, in Potaote Valley, as it was called.
The Escalante cemetery is located at 1000 East Main.
For information contact the city at 435-826-4644.
It was established with its� first burial in 1876.
Cemetery records are on-line atUtah State Historical Society.