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began to arrive in Morgan County in the 1850s, they found a man named Ben Simon already in possession of the land in the
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Mountain Green farm in 1961, and by 1968 Browning had relocated its executive offices, research and development, sales and data processing to the Morgan County location.
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in the vicinity for some 20 years. Such early settlers as George W. Higley and Gordon
Beckstead moved to Mountain Green in the 1850s with permission from the Simons and the Native Americans. The settlement was named
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This encounter led to a territorial dispute. Gardner and his men claimed the Hudson's Bay
Company trappers were violating United States soil, while Ogden insisted the area was jointly controlled by the U.S. and the
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of the CDP was 97.8% White, 0.1% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.9% Asian, 0.5% from some other race, and 0.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.1% of the population.
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