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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14PR_they-were-poor-hungry-and-they-built-to-last_Leeds-UT.html
The era of the "Great Depression" began with the crash of the stock market in 1929. The economy of the United States changed dramatically. Americans were in peril; unprecedented numbers were jobless. President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14IV_wells-fargo-and-company-express-building_Leeds-UT.html
Built in 1877Architect unknownUsed by Wells Fargo Company and by St. George merchants, Woolley, Lund and Judd.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14IU_mile-long-main-street_Leeds-UT.html
Between 1875 and the end of 1876, Silver Reef boomed with development, going from a boulder-strewn flat to a town of 1,500 people, one of the largest in Washington county. Silver Reef soon became the center of permanent development, and many stone…
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The Leeds CCC camp opened in October 1933 under the direction of the Dixie National Forest Service on the site of an existing ranger station. Leeds, a town of less than 200, more than doubled with the opening of the camp. Two hundred young men fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14I3_st-johns-church-bishop-lawrence-j-scanlan_Leeds-UT.html
St. John's Church After his 1877 visit to Silver Reef, Father Scanlan appointed Father Dennis Kiely as the local pastor. The increasing Catholic population continued to ask for a church. Father Scanlan returned in November 1878 to accomplish th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12R6_leeds-historic-ccc-camp_Leeds-UT.html
In the depression year of 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated the Civilian Conservation Corps. This program provided much needed employment for the nation's youth 18-25 years old. The men had to complete the 8th grade, and have 3-4…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11RU_leeds-ccc-camp_Leeds-UT.html
Built in 1933, the Leeds Civilian Conservation Corps Camp is significant as perhaps the best remaining example of a CCC camp in Utah. These camps were typically built of relatively temporary frame construction, and the surviving buildings and feat…
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