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    ALLPHIN, Israel Dodge

    A TURBULENT TIDAL WAVE RAGED THROUGH THE CREEK CHASM DESTROYING EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH. THERE WOULD BE NO ACCOUNTABILITY AS TO WHAT WOULD TAKE PLACE AT THIS TRAGIC MOMENT…A CENTURY LATER, HISTORY BOOKS WOULD CHRONICLE THE EVENTS OF THE JULY 16, 1863 PINE VALLEY FLOOD.
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      DALTON, Charles Wakeman: A True Pioneer

      Exploration in the early 1850 's confirmed the southern half of Utah had the potential to grow cotton, grapes, figs, flax, hemp, rice, sugarcane, tobacco and produce iron ore. In May of 1854 Brigham Young sent a group of missionaries under the leadership of Rufus C. Allen to the South. This company arrived in Pine Valley, about 35 miles Northeast of St. George, Utah on the headwaters of the Santa Clara Creek in early spring. Charles W. Dalton and family was in this company.
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