Anniversary Weekend

So for our anniversary weekend we took the girls with us to explore a ghost town called Grafton. It is behind Rockville on the way to Zions National Park. Grafton was a settlement of LDS pioneers sent by President Young to grow cotton. The town grew in population to about 150 people. After incidents with Indians and flash floods the people in the town were forced to either leave or rebuild. In the 1930's the last of the people moved out based on the fact that the lack of government funds made it impossible for the the town to get running water and waste water services.

Visitors are able to see the church building/School house in this building they town also held Friday night dances that brought visitors up all the way from the Arizona strip. One can also visit the cemetery where there are still the original wooden head stones for those that lived in Grafton so long ago.

Below is the Grafton cemetery. The wooden fence that you see is in the middle of the cemetery and it is where the 4 that were killed by indians are buried.

Below.. these are some of the people who are buried in the cemetery, their age and cause of death.

Jon and the girls are inside one of the houses..the ceilings were so low.

Below- this is the schoolhouse/church/dance hall

they filmes some movies here too back in the day I just don't remember which ones though