Mormon History, spring of 1849

[Colonizing Utah] The first in a southward extending chain of settlements was Utah Valley, immediately south of Salt Lake Valley, which was settled by thirty families in the . Within a year the population had grown to 2,026 people, and the foundation had been laid for a settlement on each of the eight streams in the valley. spring of 1849

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Colonizing Utah, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/]

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