About St. George, UT.

On March 18, 2013 we did a walking tour. St. George, UT is located in the southwestern part on the Utah/ Arizona border.

Due to the city's low elevation and southern location, St. George is the warmest part of the state and has a subtropical arid climate' dry desert valley of typical desert vegetation in the northeastern Mojave Desert, with most of the city lying below 3,000 feet.

St. George was founded as a cotton mission in 1861 under the direction of Brigham Young, the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons or LDS Church). We were given a tour of Brigham Young's Winter Home.

On May 19, 1953, the United States government detonated the 32-kiloton atomic bomb (nicknamed "Harry") at the Nevada Test Site. The bomb "Dirty Harry" because of the tremendous amount of off-site fallout generated by the bomb. Winds carried fallout 135 miles (220 km) to St. George, where residents reported "an oddly metallic sort of taste in the air.

St. George received the brunt of the fallout of above-ground nuclear testing in the Yucca Flats/Nevada Test Site northwest of Las Vegas. Marked increases in cancers such as leukaemia, lymphoma, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, bone cancer, brain tumours, and gastrointestinal tract cancers were reported from the mid-1950s through 1980.”

The Howard Hughes motion picture, The Conqueror, was being filmed in the area of St. George at the time of the detonation. The fallout is often blamed for the unusually high percentage of cancer deaths among the cast and crew.





Using the computer we researched some places to visit and trasferred the coordinates tothe GPS. We did a walking tour of the Historical Centre of St. George and saw -

Buildings built in the early 1800s;

St. George Historical Tabernacle;

Historic Town Square;

 A playground filled with families with very young children playing in the water pools and on a carousel and others eating lunch;

Have a cola the old way.

St. George Tabernacle

Blossums in full bloom 

Jacob Hamblin Home, Santa Clara, Utah

Second level of the Jacob Hamblin Home in Santa Clara 

So until next time remember "Discover It and Live It".