A friend was stranded in Fillmore, Utah last week. She told me that she spent some time talking to a local who shared some stories about the area including one about Brigham Young that I had not heard before (or just don't remember).

While Brigham was traveling through the town, on his way to St. George, there was a boulder in the middle of the road. Brigham Young told the town folk he wanted the boulder moved by the time he came back through. On Brigham's return trip the boulder was still in the road so he cursed the town with no prosperity for 100 years.

If you’ve traveled through Fillmore you’d know that Brigham’s curse has lasted much longer than that! LOL


The stories never stop, there's always something new to be heard. Next thing you know I'll hear a story about Joseph Smith using stones in a hat to tell people where to find buried treasure. :)

Naw; that one Wouldn't EVER HAPPEN!

Fillmore, Virgin, Beaver.
"Visit Southern Utah"

If you go to the rest stop/gas station in Beaver (for any who pass that town on I-15), you'll see there's a whole industry that capitalizes on the slang term "Beaver". And next to the "Beaver" shirts hang "SL,UT" shirts.

Kind of weird for a gas station in a little LDS town.

I love beaver too. Just not that shit hole town.

Uh he couldn't go around the boulder?

Perhaps BY was less upset about the boulder and more about how bald-faced political pandering failed to lessen his troubles with the US government.



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I believe because it was closer to the center.

But, that idea went the way of the deseret alphabet.

Filmore was actually the first capital of Utah when it was still a territory.

Reminds me of those kolobian urban legends you'd hear on the mish about GAs that dusted their feet in places that were mean to missionaries and they turned into ghost towns.. ooOOooooOOooooohhhhhhh....

Why couldn't BY have moved it? Doesn't the scriptures say that with the faith of a mustard seed you can move mountains?

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I think this is very interesting story.I heard a similar story about Washington, Utah but, I think they are just that stories. The definition of a story is:

STANDARD COLLEGE DICTIONARY by HARCOURT, BRACE & WORLD

The definition of a story:

A narrative or recital of an event or series of events, whether real or fictitious.

A narrative, usually of fictitious events.

A narrative usually of fictitious events, intended to entertain a reader or hearer.

A celebrated or romantic legend or history, to live on in a story.

To adorn with designs, representing scenes from history, legend, ect.

(I think all these stories are legend's based on some history.)

It's another hillbilly Mormon town. I broke down there once and had to spend the night in a cheap hotel.