WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington County, Utah)
DIXIE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
St. George, Utah
LOCATION
TBD37° 6' xx.xx" North Latitude, 113° 34' xx.xx" West Longitude
37.xxxx° North Latitude, 113.xxxx° West Longitude
2,xxx feet (xxx meters) MSL
HISTORY
After a 1961 visit to the Hawthorn Company in St. Louis, St. George Chamber of Commerce leaders Bruce Stucki, Jim Lundberg, and Neal Lundberg returned to St. George and quickly organized the Dixie Development Corporation. It obained and option on some land that eventually became the first industrial park in St. George. Hawthorn was sold on setting up a manufacturing plant there.PHOTOS
TBDREFERENCES
A History if Washington County from Isolation to DestinationSee page 314 in the first edition and page 295 in the second edition for information
about the origin of the Dixie Development Corporation.