Brigham City, ghost town in Navajo County, Arizona
Brigham City is a ghost town in Navajo County, Arizona, about 1.5 miles north of Winslow's center along the Little Colorado River. Of the settlement founded in 1876, only one building and portions of the encircling wall remain; the wall was originally 200 feet long and 7 feet high. Excavations have uncovered the grist mill and pottery sites.
Brigham City was settled in 1876 by twenty Mormon families and fifteen bachelors from Salt Lake City, one and a half miles north of present-day Winslow on the Little Colorado River. It was organized as a Latter-day Saints ward in 1878 and counted 191 residents in the 1880 census. Flash floods washed away dams and irrigation systems, causing crop failures, and the town was abandoned by 1881. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 9, 1978.
The townsite lies about 1.5 miles north of Winslow's center, along the Little Colorado River, and has been annexed into Winslow. Only one building and portions of the 200-foot-long, 7-foot-high protective wall remain, so look for the wall traces as well as the single structure. Excavations have been carried out at the grist mill and pottery locations.
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