Pleasant Grove, Utah
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 Looking west over the city to Utah Lake and Eagle Mountain |
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| Location in Utah | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1850 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Utah | ||
| County : | Utah County | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 22 ′ N , 111 ° 44 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Mountain ( UTC − 7 / −6 ) | ||
| Residents : | 29,376 (as of: 2005 estimate) | ||
| Population density : | 1,299.8 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 22.6 km 2 (approx. 9 mi 2 ) of which 22.6 km 2 (approx. 9 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 1409 m | ||
| Postal code : | 84062 | ||
| Area code : | +1 801 | ||
| FIPS : | 49-60930 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1444479 | ||
| Website : | www.plgrove.org | ||
Pleasant Grove is a city in Utah County in the US state of Utah . It is located on the east bank of Utah Lake below Mount Tamalpais in the Wasatch Mountains and has a population of 29,376 (2005 estimate). The city is one of the original localities when the Utah Valley was settled and is now part of the agglomeration on the east bank of Utah Lake and is therefore part of the Orem / Provo metropolitan area .
history
The valley of Utah Lake was originally a range of the eponymous Ute Indians. At the site of what would later become Pleasant Grove, the first, small skirmish between the Ute and Mormon pioneers , who explored the region from Salt Lake City on behalf of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) , broke out in 1849 . Therefore, the region was named Battle Creek after a small watercourse .
In the summer of 1850, Brigham Young sent three families, William H. Adams, John Mercer, and Philo T. Farnsworth, to Battle Creek on behalf of the Church to build farms there. They built their first huts in a grove ( English: grove ), the (ger .: between mountains and sea on a pleasant pleasant ) place standing. Their small settlement was supplemented by further settlers in autumn 1850. In 1853, the settlers built a two meter high fortification wall around their settlement to protect the houses against the Indians. The corner points of the wall are now marked as monuments. Shortly afterwards, there were individual fighting in the Walker Indian War , in the course of which the settlers forcibly prevailed against the original inhabitants. As a result, the settlement grew like the population of the entire Utah Valley and on January 18, 1855, Pleasant Grove was officially registered with 623 inhabitants. Between 1870 and 1890, the place attracted immigrants from Scandinavia. There had been a wave of Church of Jesus Christ proselytizing since the middle of the century and many of the new Mormons emigrated to Utah. About a third of the residents of Pleasant Grove at the time were of Scandinavian origin.
The place was purely agricultural. The loose soil below the mountains was particularly suitable for orchards, the heavy sandy soil on the lake shore was used later for potatoes and sugar beets. For the latter, the region's first sugar factory was built in Lehi on the north bank of the lake before 1900 . The first commercial companies were two sawmills and several construction companies, including two civil engineering companies that specialized in the installation of water supplies for the communities in the valley and the wider region at the beginning of the 20th century.
Pleasant Grove benefited from 1915 from the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad and the establishment of a canning factory on the railway. This made it possible to grow vegetables far beyond the region's own needs. With the spread of the chiller , Pleasant Grove continued to specialize, and the city soon referred to itself as the Strawberry City of Utah and still holds an annual festival dedicated to fruit, Strawberry Days .
In 1924 the southern part of the parish, which was previously called Southfield , was raised as Lindon to an independent parish. The region remained agricultural until the Second World War. The first large industrial company to be built was a steel mill on the lakeshore south of Pleasant Grove, in what is now the Vineyard , during the war . It also provided jobs for the people of Pleasant Grove.
Pleasant Grove today
After the war, the place slowly changed from an agrarian orientation to a suburb of the larger settlements, especially Provo a good ten kilometers south. The trend accelerated in the 1990s, now almost the entire community area below the mountains is built on with single-family housing estates. There is still commercial space and space reserves in the bank.
Pleasant Grove is slightly below the regional average economically, with median household income in 2000 being $ 52,000, while for Utah County as a whole it reached $ 56,750. Formal education was also close to the United States average, at 28% of the college-educated population, but below the 34.7% average for the above-average educated county.
The city has merged with Lindon in the south, American Fork in the west and Cedar Hills in the north . The place is developed in a north-south direction by the Interstate Highway 15 on the lake shore and the parallel US Highway 89 in the residential area.
Strawberry Days
The Strawberry Days ( Engl. "Strawberry Days" ) are an annual summer event in Pleasant Grove, which is also the oldest in Utah. The city usually hosts the event in the third week of June. Performances such as a rodeo , parades , competitions and a carnival make up the festival, which attracts numerous participants and spectators from the western United States. Free consumption of strawberries is part of the program. Though strawberries no longer grow in Pleasant Grove, the name comes from an earlier time when strawberries were a major economic factor in the town. The first "Strawberry Days" took place in the second week of June 1921. The organizer was the Wasatch Club, a pioneer of the Chamber of Commerce.
sons and daughters of the town
- D. Todd Christofferson (born 1945), Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Utah History Encyclopedia: Pleasant Grove ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Online edition on the University of Utah website
- ^ Markers and Monuments Database. (No longer available online.) Utah Department of Community and Culture, formerly original ; accessed on June 18, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b US Census Bureau: Pleasant Grove ( Memento from January 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 40 kB)
- ↑ US Census Bureau: Utah County - Income , as of 2000
- ↑ US Census Bureau: Utah County - Education , as of 2000
