Autobiography Volume 3 circa 1865-1866
From Salt Creek Fort on the morning of the we started
rode to Summit and thence to Pason where we took breakfast. We then
continued to Palmyira but did not stop so I did not get the statistics of
the place. At Springville we dined and then continued to Provo
where we tarried but a few minutes and thence we drove to Pleasant
Grove and took supper. Thence to Lake City where we did not
^stop^ and on through Lehi and then to the point of the mountain where
we camped, making the distance of our day's travel 55 miles.
Pleasant Grove in 1855.
Pleasant Grove was 80 rods square with a wall the same. The
wall was 8 feet high built of stone three feet thick at the bottom and
18 inches at the top. It was finished 4 feet high. The
place contained 60 families with three hundred persons. There
was one adobie school house 18 by 30 feet and 60 dwellings erected
Lake City
contained seventy five families and 375 persons.
Lehi in 1855
At this date the city of Lehi was surrounded with a wall
120 rods square which formed the limits of the place. The
wall was designed to be 12 feet high 6 feet thick at the bottom
and three feet at the top: It was finished to the height of five
feet. Lehi contained 640 persons 3 schools 75 scholars and
a tithing office 33 by 24 feet and two stories high.
