Welcome To: Verdure! Traditional Cache
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The oldest Mormon settlement in the Blue
Mountain Region was first known as South Montezuma. Later the name
was changed to Verdure after the lush green growth along the stream
bed. Verdure was settled by men of the Blue Mountain Mission March
11, 1887, under the direction of Pres. Francis A. Hammond of the
San Juan Stake. He called George A. Adams, Frederick I. Jones,
Parley R. Butt and Charles E. Walton to establish a new settlement
at North Montezuma, later named Monticello. They first set up camp
at Verdure to prepare for a permanent settlement at Monticello, six
miles to the north. When company members moved on to Monticello in
1888 the Adams and Butt families remained at Verdure. By 1894 they
were joined by the Alvin Decker, Willard Butt, Lingo Christensen,
R.P. Hott and Francis Nielson families. Nielson operated a store
and a school out of his log home, the first church met in the
Decker home, and in 1893 a post office was installed in the Adams
home. Verdure was a peaceful frontier village where cattle, farming
and cheese-making were the main occupations. Gradually the settlers
moved to Monticello.
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