WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Toquerville, Utah

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In early June 1854, eight members of the Southern Indian Mission, led by Rufus C. Allen, left Harmony to visit Toquer, chief of the Paiute Indian band on lower Ash Creek. Their primary objectives were to learn the natives' language and convert some of the tribe to Mormonism. In response to Toquer's friendly reception, the missionaries promised to return, live among the Indians, and teach them how to farm the white man's way. In 1858, several families built log cabins near Chief Toquer's Paiute village along Ash Creek. In 1859, nineteen families were living in Toquerville and by 1864 the community had grown to forty-one families.

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HISTORICAL SITES

Toquerville Church & Town Hall
Naegle Winery
Thomas Forsythe Home
John Steele Home

PHOTOS

Photos on the web:
6/8/1979 photo of the springs north of Toquerville
6/22/1915 photo of the Toquerville Bridge under construction
1885 photo of the home of David and Annie Spilsbury and baby Josephine with unknown children in the foreground
9/3/1949 photo of Toquerville LDS bishops on the steps of the old church
1949 photo of Mrs. Dick Higbee and William R. Palmer with pioneer and Indian relics at the Toquerville Homecoming
1949 photo of Mrs. Dick Higbee at the Toquerville Homecoming
1949 photo Mrs. Dick Higbee showing pioneer relics to William R. Palmer at the Toquerville Homecoming
Photo of the Fannie Burke Cottage in Toquerville
Photo of Fannie Burke by her Cottage in Toquerville
Photo of a very young Frances Rosilla Burke, a Presbyterian missionary in Toquerville
Photo of Frances Rosilla Burke of Toquerville
Photo of Frances R. Burke as a little girl
Photo of Frances Burke, a Presbyterian teacher
Photo of Frances Burke as an older woman
Photo of the headstone of Frances Rosalie Burke

REFERENCES

Wikipedia article about Toquerville
A history of Toquerville
A history of Toquerville
Toquerville genealogy

"A Gazetteer History of Toquerville, Volume III Revised"
A book by Wesley P. Larsen
Toquerville: Privately printed by Wesley P. Larsen, 1999

"A History of Toquerville, Volume 2"
By Wesley Pratt Larsen
In the Larsen papers in Special Collections at the Marriott Library of the University of Utah

"Toquerville, Oasis in the Desert – A History of Toquerville and the Area"
Book compiled and written by Cherrie Gubler Naegle

Washington County Chapter, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, " Under Dixie Sun".
1950 with 1978 Supplement.
Pages 255-266, Supplement Page 47.