Cedar City Real Estate
Cedar City Utah has a rich and colorful history. At first Cedar City was named Little Muddy and then Coal Creek by the thirty-five men who set out from Parowan, twenty miles north. Cedar City was eventually named for its plentiful trees but they were mistakenly thought to be cedars when in actuality they are junipers. After iron deposits were found in southern Utah, volunteers began to colonize the Iron Mission Area in November of 1851 – the very first iron to be produced west of the Missouri River. However, furnace problems, destructive floods and hostility with Native Americans soon closed the foundry in 1858.
The small boxes from the horse drawn wagons, used to relocate to the area, were detached and used for short-term shelters while small log homes were erected. The homes were made from the trunks and thick limbs of cottonwood trees, as well as material found floating along the creeks. One by one, as the log houses were completed, more families arrived from nearby Parowan. The wagon boxes served as a temporary fort to protect them from hostile tribes. Later, a good site for the fort was selected nearer the proposed blast furnace (which is at the present city park). Many cottonwood log houses were erected in a ‘fort-style’ at the western base of the green hill.
A tactical advantage was gained over the fort, however, by the Native Americans when they used a nearby hill to attack them. As iron workers flocked to the site, a new and much larger site was found. It began to be occupied by new settlers and those who wanted to move by the beginning of 1853. The sudden outbreak of hostilities with the Native Americans in the summer of 1853, the entire fort had to be evacuated in two days to the bigger, better protected site. The Walker Indian War had broken out and protection of the families was considered most important. The new area had an enclosed area that was walled off and was much safer. It was finished in mid-winter of 1854.
However, just a couple of years later, another site closer to the furnace was found after Brigham Young had suggested the area was ideal. Cedar City is in this area today. Many mining towns and settlements in the area disappeared but Cedar City residents turned to agriculture and continued to thrive. When World War II stretched iron works across the nation, Cedar City began producing iron ore again to help with the war effort and continued producing iron into the 1980's. Cedar City Real Estate is still alive and flourishing, come see the beautiful town with down home roots!
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