Fort Supply Traditional Cache
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Getting there is fairly clear on the map. you can go either of 2 gravel roads off the the main paved road going through Robertson.
This is another interestin Mormon Trail historic site. It was established in 1853 under Apostle Orson Hyde's direction by John Nebeker as an alternative stopping place to Fort Bridger, 12 miles away. It's purpose was to raise crops for the final resupply of Mormon immigrant wagon trains to enable them to reach the Great Salt Lake Valley. Early groups would plant crops and take what they needed from the previous year's caches. Subsequent parties would irrigate and cultivate and those trains at the end of the season would harvest and cache the crops. This experiment in supply collonization ended with the approach of the army under Albert S Johnson during the Utah War or "Buchannan's Blunder" in 1857. The defensive scorched earth policy to delay the army included burning of Fort Bridger (Purchased by the church in 1855) and Fort Supply which was never rebuilt. If you have time and inclination, you can look around and find the remnents of the burned off logs placed in the ground to construct the fort.
This site was donated to the State as a historical site in 1937.
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