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1490: 300:, and attorney Daniel Alexander pledged support to the initiative with advocacy among area business and political leaders. A Utah State Board of Land Commissioners representative escorted Brown and Herbst to inspect available land. Brown and Herbst were impressed with a parcel of state-owned land in south-central Utah below the planned Piute Canal. Brown was convinced of the soil's fertility, and with the state's assurances of available water, the association agreed to purchase the land at auction on August 7, 1911. 456: 471:. Goldberg placed advertisements for contacts in the Salt Lake Jewish community newsletter. He tracked down 53 families with ties to Clarion, and reconstructed the story from interviews and records. Goldberg's papers are archived and accessible through the University of Utah in the Robert Alan Goldberg papers which include diaries, monographs, and news articles by or regarding the Clarion participants, as well as interviews, research questionnaires, and correspondence with their descendants. 42: 91: 58: 383:, they did lead to more success in terms of crops in the Spring of 1913. Combined with the construction of a well to make water more accessible, the population of Clarion continued to grow, and the colony as a whole started to show signs of stability. However, through the Summer and Fall, severe weather frequently challenged living and planting conditions, as well as the stamina of the colonists, which, combined with a 243:
society. Historically in Europe, Jews faced prohibitions on acquiring real estate and were often denied membership in various professional guilds. As a result, many of them ended up residing in impoverished urban ghettos and rural villages. European Jewish reformers and Zionist nationalists argued that Jews needed to become "a normal nation" and advocated for Jewish land ownership and agriculture cultivation in a
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In 2008, the Salt Lake Tribune observed that fences had been reconstructed around the Jewish graves and noted the foundations of buildings and the walls of the broken cistern that burst the first day colonists used it. At the time of the centenary in 2011, Brown Rex Dairy abutted the Clarion site and
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moved forward in 2014 with placing plaques on key sites in Clarion and developing an interpretive display on Gunnison's Main in coordination with the Gunnison City Council. The Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area provided a grant for which it sought a fifty-percent match which was provided by the
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In the fallout of the year's poor performing harvest, the colony decided that having individual control over the territory would be more beneficial. Shortly thereafter, forty-acre lots of land began to replace collective work and ownership of the property. By October 1912, there were about 150
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was a wide-ranging debate in 19th- and 20th-century European society pertaining to the appropriate status and treatment of Jews in society. The debate was similar to other so-called "national questions" and dealt with the civil, legal, national and political status of Jews as a minority within
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and twelve original colonists "chosen for their mechanical skills, experience with horses, and ‘seriousness,’” arrived at the settlement on September 10, 1911. The Clarion location offered seemingly cultivatable land that was sufficiently large enough to handle the group of incoming
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After the demise of the Jewish colony, others moved into the area. Japanese families settled in the Clarion area in 1921, as did Mormons of Scandinavian descent. Brown and a few of the other Jewish colonists stayed and farmed in the area until the 1920s. The Kalispell, Montana
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noted the passing in 1983 of Jean Stroud, born to Oscar and Matilda Jensen Keele in Clarion in 1923. There were enough persons residing in Clarion in 1925 to establish the Clarion LDS Ward. Friedland observed the Japanese families when he returned to the Clarion site in 1926.
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By 1915, the population of Clarion had decreased by almost two-thirds, and a second consecutive poor harvest during the year led to even more residents leaving in the pursuit of industrial labor opportunities in major cities such as
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By May 1912, the colonists quickly began to see their investment pay off, as they were able to harvest their crops while new families frequently arrived at the site. However, the colonists were simultaneously plagued by
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began to auction off the colony’s land. Although some colonists remained, as only about one-tenth of the total tract was sold, most of the Jewish residents left within three or four years of the sale of the territory.
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Professor Robert Goldberg chanced upon the Clarion remnants in 1980. A subsequent interview in Los Angeles with a descendant of one of the Clarion families led to Goldberg's writing the Jewish colony's history,
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In 1932, the Clarion LDS Ward had 166 members and met in the social hall constructed by the Jewish settlers. The LDS Ward was dissolved on April 1, 1934, "on account of the shortage of water." World War II
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neighborhood, with 250 members, branches in New York and Baltimore, and for the purpose of, "Settling on farms and mutual aid". Brown served as president and Isaac Herbst was secretary.
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Clarion was featured in the play "Life, More Sweet Than Bitter" which tells the story of a Jewish family from Dubossar, Russia which came through Philadelphia to Clarion.
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families at the colony when the Jewish Agricultural and Colonial Association announced that one hundred and fifty additional families would join the settlement.
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was so pleased with the experiment that he journeyed the 135 miles (217 km) from the capital in order to celebrate the community's first harvest.
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in Tel Aviv included Clarion in the 1983 exhibit, "Diaspora Farmers of the 19th and 20th Century". You can also read the book the play was based on,
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in the South Philadelphia neighborhood from which many of the Clarion colonists originated as part of the "Hidden City Philadelphia Festival 2013".
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In September 2011 a celebration to mark the 100th anniversary of the settlement was celebrated in Salt Lake City. Tours of the site were featured.
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The colony celebrated a harvest festival on August 18, 1912. More than 1,000 people attended including Governor
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Brown and Herbst, as representatives of the organization, traveled in 1911 to investigate potential sites in
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established the Jewish Agricultural and Colonial Association and listed its primary office in Philadelphia's
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Utah State Board of Land Commissioners (January 4, 1916). "Minute Book". No. 14. pp. 224–225.
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Jack A. Christensen (April 9, 1959). "Former Resident Calls Attention To Valley Area Needing Care".
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and the land reverted to the local citizens. By 1959 the Clarion social hall had been turned into a
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The association was also attracted by the financially secure and politically established
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Robert A. Goldberg (1991). "Zion in Utah". In Rischin, Moses; Livingston, John (eds.).
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Robert A. Goldberg (1991). "Zion in Utah". In Rischin, Moses; Livingston, John (eds.).
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Utah Governor William Spry speaks at Clarion, Utah Harvest Festival on August 18, 1912
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who was traveling that summer through the American west, and spoke at the festival.
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local residents continued to refer to the area as "Clarion" although it is in the
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Virgin Soil: Memories of 'Clarion'; On the Land of California; and Other Stories
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Virgin Soil: Memories of 'Clarion'; On the Land of California; and Other Stories
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vast tracts of desert and Brown and Herbst were encouraged by the opportunity.
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Bona, Monte R. (May 22, 2014). "Clarion" (typescript). Letter to Joan Sacks.
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had been advertising nationally to receive more settlers, and Governor
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Back to the Soil: The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah, and Their World
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Back to the Soil: The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah, and Their World
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Back to the Soil: The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah, and Their World
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The Pioneer Jews of Utah: Studies in American Jewish History Number 2
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The University of Utah, College of Humanities, Department of History
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100 Years ago, Jewish Colony Left Its Mark on Utah and Its People
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While the individual plots of land were not uniform in terms of
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The Pioneer Jews of Utah: Studies in American Jewish History
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Jewish community. Socially prominent Salt Lake City Jews
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and 3 miles (4.8 km) wide. The area today is in the
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The Clarion Colony: Its Beginnings, Its Life, Its Demise
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Ghost town

Clarion is located in Utah
Clarion is located in the United States
39°07′20″N 111°53′11″W / 39.12222°N 111.88639°W / 39.12222; -111.88639
State
Utah
County
Sanpete
ghost town
Sanpete County, Utah
Gunnison
Sevier River
Centerfield, Utah
Jewish question
back-to-the-land movement
Benjamin Brown
West Parkside
New Mexico
Colorado
Wyoming
Montana
Sanpete County, Utah
irrigate
Salt Lake City
Simon Bamberger
Samuel Newhouse
Benjamin Brown
colonists
Salt Lake City

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