Two Cabin Homesteads from Mormon Row Jackson Wyoming
by Aurelia Schanzenbacher
Title
Two Cabin Homesteads from Mormon Row Jackson Wyoming
Artist
Aurelia Schanzenbacher
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art
Description
Settlement cabins located in Mormon Row area, in Jackson, WY near the Grand Teton National Park. Photograph transformed digitally.
Mormon Row was settled in the late 1890s by Mormons from the Salt Lake region. The town was formerly known as the town Grovont. and was established by 27 homesteaders. The Homestead Act of 1862, granted land ownership to any person willing to build a house and cultivate the area for five years. The community was able to establish a presence in the area east of Blacktail Butte, below the Grand Tetons. Settlers secured 27 homesteads they built close together to share labor and community. Despite the harsh conditions of Jackson Hole, WY. These hardy settlers dug ditches by hand and with teams of horses, building an intricate network of levees and dikes to funnel water from central ditches to their fields between 1896 and 1937. Water still flows in some of these ditches. Settlers dug miles of ditches to bring water from the Gros Ventre River to their fields. In the winters, these ditches would freeze so families traveled to the river with buckets to gather water. It wasn’t until 1927 that the Kelly Warm Spring cooled and offered a dependable water source to the residents. Families grew hay and ninety-day-oats. These were one of the limited crops that were able to survive the short growing season and harsh conditions of the Jackson Hole area. Families sustained themselves by owning cows, whose milk and meat provided food, as well as horses to till the fields The town of Grovont also contained several ranches, homes, a church, and a school. The church, built in 1916, played a critical role in the community serving as a social stage for all races and religions, regardless of faith. Although the building was moved to Wilson, it is marked at Mormon Row by fence posts, two cottonwoods, and a spruce tree. In the mid-1900s, Mormon Row was acquired to expand Grand Teton National Park and in 1997 the district was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Below are descriptions of some of the barns that still stand today, offering the same feeling and setting of the district as it was 100 years
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