Mapleton, Utah history

However, it was not going to be a smooth transition from a farming program developed from a United Order communal organization to an American free-enterprise land-grab allowed under the Homestead Act of 1862.

When the Indians who had claimed Utah Valley were moved to a reservation in 1869, the development of the Mapleton bench area began.

Charles E. Malmstrom, a Swedish immigrant with an Australian wife, built a home at what is now west Maple Street, about 250 rods west of the present Mapleton City Building, and moved in 1 December 1873.

By 1877 there were at least eighteen families established with homes on the Union Field land.

The Latter-day Saint Ward, established on the bench In 1888, became the nucleus for both civic and spiritual growth.

After the establishment of town government in 1901 Mapleton grew and developed in ways similar to much larger cities.

By 1911 they had a new recreation center in town, built by public donation.

In 1930 the town celebrated the establishment of a new culinary water system.

A History of Mapleton, Utah to 1945

Still, the officials never found a way, even after Mapleton became a third-class city in 1948, to provide enough local jobs for the residents.

Mapleton's 1990 population is quite cosmopolitan.

Disclaimer: Information on this site was converted from a hard cover book published by University of Utah Press in 1994.