Camp Spring (Washington County, Utah)

Camp Spring is a spring in Washington County, Utah. It lies at an elevation of 3,435 feet/1,047 meters in the reservation of the Shivwits Band of Paiutes.^[1]

History

Camp Spring was a campsite for travelers on the wagon route of the Mormon Road between Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, and Los Angeles, California–first mentioned in the itinerary of the Mormon Waybill published in 1851.^[2] It may have first been a stop on the Armijo route of the Old Spanish Trail, the spring being along the Calabacillas Arroyo (Little wild squash arroyo, so named by Antonio Armijo), that lead up to Utah Hill Summit, where the old trail and later the road passed over the Beaver Dam Mountains from the Santa Clara River to the Virgin River at what is now Littlefield, Arizona.^[3][4]

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Camp Spring
2. LeRoy Reuben Hafen, Ann Woodbury Hafen, Journals of Forty-niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles: with Diaries and Contemporary Records of Sheldon Young, James S. Brown, Jacob Y. Stover, Charles C. Rich, Addison Pratt, Howard Egan, Henry W. Bigler, and Others, U of Nebraska Press, 1954, pp.321-324 Mormon Waybill, Joseph Cain and A. C. Brower, Salt Lake City, 1851. Road distances from readings of rodeometer attached to the wagon of Addison Pratt of the 1849 Jefferson Hunt Wagon Train.
3. LeRoy R. Hafen and Antonio Armijo, Armijo's Journal, Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1, (Nov., 1947), pp. 87-101, University of California Press, DOI: 10.2307/3816035 from jstor.org accessed 10/28/2015
4. Diario que formo yo el ciudando Antonio Armijo, como comandante, para el descubrimiento del camino para el punto de las Californias (Diary made by citizen Antonio Armijo as commandant for the discovery of the route to the Californias), Registro Oficial, Del Gobierno De Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Ano 1, Tom. II., Sabado 19 de Junio de 1830, Num. 54., pp 205-206

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