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The Bluff Fort - First home of the Hole-in-the-Rock/San Juan Pioneers

 
 
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Barton Cabin

Barton Cabin Ruin

Meetinghouse

Pioneer Monument
 
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Bluff Fort -- Monument and Flag, center of the Bluff Historic Fort. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Monument
 
Bluff Fort -- Covered wagon, Barton cabin in the background. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Vintage Covered Wagon
 
Bluff Fort -- Bluff Fort wagons, cabin replicas in the distance. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Bluff Fort Wagon
 
Bluff Fort -- Bluff Fort wagon adjacent to the monument. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Monument & Covered Wagon
 
 
Bluff Fort -- Barton cabin, the oldest pioneer structure in San Juan County. The only remaining cabin built by the Hole-in-the-Rock pioneers. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Barton Cabin
 
Bluff Fort -- The Barton cabin was once part of the original Bluff Fort. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Barton Cabin
 
Bluff Fort -- Barton Cabin interior. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Barton Cabin Interior
 
Bluff Fort -- Barton cabin breezway ceiling. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Barton Cabin Ceiling
 
 
Bluff Fort -- The portion of the Barton cabin which is not restored provides a glimpse of the work involved in securing adjoining logs together with pins. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Barton Cabin Log Pinning
 
Bluff Fort -- Replica of the Bluff Fort Meetinghouse. The original meetinghouse served as the courthouse, church, school, and dance hall. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Restored Meetinghouse
 
Bluff Fort -- Restored log meetinghouse, northeast corner. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Restored Meetinghouse
 
Bluff Fort -- Interior of the replica of the Bluff Fort log meetinghouse. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Restored Meetinghouse Interior
 
 
Bluff Fort -- Covered wagon with the Bluff Fort log meetinghouse in the background. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Wagon & Meetinghouse
 
Bluff Fort -- A collection of covered wagons adds to the pioneer atmosphere at the Bluff Fort Historic Site. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Covered Wagon
 
Bluff Fort -- New cabin addition at the Bluff Fort Historic Site. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Cabin Replica & Wagon
 
Bluff Fort -- New cabins added to the Bluff Fort Historic Site to give some semblance of the original fort. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Cabin Replica
 
 

Bluff, Utah  -- The southwest corner of the Bluff Fort was the original site of the Amasa Barton blacksmith shop. Lamont Crabtree Photo Southwest Corner of the Bluff Fort

 
Bluff Fort -- Ripsaw fence/south end of the Bluff Fort Historic Site. Ripsaw fences were a common method of fence building when no iron or wire was available. Lamont Crabtree photo
Ripsaw Fence
Southwest Corner of the Fort
 
Bluff Fort -- New cabin added to the Bluff Fort will be used to help convey the stories of the early settlers who lived in similar one-room log cabins. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Cabin Replicas
 
Bluff Fort -- The Kumen Jones ruin at the northeast corner of the Bluff Fort was once an elegant sandstone home. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Kumen Jones Ruin
 


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"Is it possible in any fertile spot in Utah, no matter how remote from civilization, not to find a prosperous band of Mormons? It might have been so before '79, but now we find many interesting settlements.  One, a carefully laid out village, built on the bottom-lands of the San Juan River and the cliffs, is fitly called Bluff City.
I cannot imagine a finer example of Mormon enterprise than these two hundred people, with their wealth of cattle and horses, leaving good homes, and facing the dangers and hardships of an unknown country."   Remington W. Lane, Harpers Magazine, December, 9, 1893.