http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55424505-78/covington-utah-county-cotton.html.csp

Early LDS settler Robert Dockery Covington was chosen to settle the Southern Utah area because its similarity to the South where BY believed cotton could be produced successfully. "Covington boasted of his sexual conquests of slave women and girls, the narrator recalled. Once he described how he forced himself on a married woman after whipping her husband."


" . . . puts the skids to this happy fantasy that [Utah’s Dixie has] no connection to the Confederacy," Utah historian Will Bagley said. "The name Dixie reflects the sympathy that the southern Utah and the Mormon people felt for the Confederacy."

This ought to be good.

Please consider signing a petition to choose an appropriate name for the University at:


https://www.change.org/petitions/dixie-state-college-choose-an-appropriate-name-for-the-university

I love these little flecks of history! They're like a really, really bad case of dandruff on the shoulders of a greasy smelly old degenerate - just one more reason to find the whole thing totally repulsive.

Ooh, nice analogy, there, xyz. You wax poetic this morning.

Thanks! Ha!

I never connected Dixie State College to the Dixie of the South.

I understand being disgusted by past atrocities. I do not understand erasing history. Those horrible things happened. We should remember horrible things just as often as we remember wonderful things.

The acts of our ancestors says nothing about us. The fact that my family many generations before me owned slaves doesn't reflect on me. Having a school named for a part of American history doesn't reflect on the current community it is in. Although the name Dixie does reflect the sympathy of southern Utah for the south when it was named, keeping the name reflects sympathy for history.

I think naming a university after a horrible person like BY is a travesty!

But then I'm one of those icky little bleeding hearts who loves history but thinks you can celebrate history without glorifying monsters.

I and most Utahns grew up taking a year of state history in school without ever learning that BY declared Utah a slave territory.

There were slaves on his wagon train, and the church took at least one slave as tithing.

Wonder if any of these things are being addressed in public school Utah History today:

Mountain Meadows Massacre

Bear Mountain Massacre

BY's plan for Utah to be a sovereign nation.

BY's ouster as Governor

The many ways the govt. attempted to legally address polygamy, ie: laws against bigamy, cohabitation, etc. and the final compromise.

The establishment of colonies in Mexico to which hard-core Utah polygamists fled.

BY's $$$ collection for laying of the transcontinental railroad while workers were paid minimally or not at all.

Etc, etc.

Yes they are all in the Utah history text. I.taught the subject for years

The Covington Mansion was bought by Washington City in April of 2012 and is being restored as a historical site.

http://www.wchsutah.org/homes/covington-mansion.php

A statue of confederate soldiers has been taken down.

http://cwcrossroads.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/
http://www.kutv.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_2773.shtml

i have an ancestor who had a slave in utah.

disgusting