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Mormon Row Historic District

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Nearest city
  
Moose, Wyoming

Architect
  
multiple

NRHP Reference #
  
97000495

Area
  
4.452 kmĀ²

Added to NRHP
  
5 June 1997

Built
  
1927

Architectural style
  
Other

Opened
  
1927

Phone
  
+1 307-739-3300

Mormon Row Historic District

Address
  
Grand Teton National Park, 83012 Kelly Ave, East Liverpool, OH 43920, USA

MPS
  
Historical buildings and structures of Grand Teton National Park

Similar
  
Grand Teton National, T A Moulton Barn, Signal Mountain, Jackson Lake, Craig Thomas Discovery

Mormon Row is a line of homestead complexes along the Jackson-Moran Road near the southeast corner of Grand Teton National Park, in the valley called Jackson Hole. The rural historic landscape's period of significance includes the construction of the Andy Chambers, T.A. Moulton and John Moulton farms from 1908 to the 1950s. Six building clusters and a separate ruin illustrate Mormon settlement in the area and comprise such features as drainage systems, barns, fields and corrals. Apart from John and T.A. Moulton, other settlers in the area were Joseph Eggleston, Albert Gunther, Henry May, Thomas Murphy and George Riniker.

The area is also known as Antelope Flats, situated between the towns of Moose and Kelly. It is a popular destination for tourists and photographers on account of the historic buildings, the herds of bison, and the spectacular Teton Range rising in the background. The alluvial soil to the east of Blacktail Butte was more suitable than most locations in Jackson Hole for farming, somewhat hampered by a lack of readily available water. The Mormon homesteaders began to arrive in the 1890s from Idaho, creating a community called "Gros Ventre", with a total of 27 homesteads. The Mormon settlers tended to create clustered communities, in contrast to the isolated homesteads more typical of Jackson Hole.

Mormon Row was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

References

Mormon Row Historic District Wikipedia