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Originally Posted by urbanboy
I had understood that this is where the U.S. troops set up camp after having marched through salt lake city (when the Mormons buried the footings of their temple, and had groomed the ground on temple square to make it look like a cornfield). At least this is what I was told when my stake had a Youth Conference there.
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Nope, that would be Camp Floyd just south of where modern day Cedar Fort is--kind of the general area as Camp Williams, but Camp Williams was set up by Utah, as the camp for the National Guard--so associated with the Fed Gov't, but not really associated with the
Utah War. Camp Williams was created in 1928--LONG after the Utah War.
"Utah's first militia was called the Nauvoo Legion after a similar organization in Illinois. Abolished by the Edmunds-Tucker Act in l887, the militia was revived in 1894 as the Utah National Guard. The state established a camp for the guard in 1928, named in honor of Brigadier General W. G. Williams." --
"The Defense Industry of Utah" by Thomas G. Alexander and Rick J. Fish
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