Mormon Row Historic District, Historic district in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, US.
Mormon Row Historic District is a line of homestead complexes along the Jackson-Moran Road near the southeast corner of Grand Teton National Park, in Jackson Hole between Moose and Kelly. It holds six building clusters and a separate ruin, with barns, fields, corrals and drainage ditches. The weathered wooden barn in the photographs has vertical planks, a large sliding door and a lower log wing; the two-story house beside it is painted faded peach, with a brick chimney and a gabled entry section.
Mormon settlers arrived from Idaho during the 1890s and established farms in this area, working the land over several decades. The site was later incorporated into the national park and now stands as a monument to that early settlement history.
The name Gros Ventre, given to the Mormon community founded here in the 1890s, came from French trappers and refers to the Gros Ventre people; the settlers themselves came from Idaho. The clustered layout of the farms, rather than isolated homesteads, followed Mormon settlement practice. The weathered barns, such as the log-walled T.A. Moulton Barn, are what visitors photograph today.
The site sits along a public road and is free to access for visitors who want to walk around or stop to look. The best time for photography is in early morning or late evening hours when the sun hangs low on the horizon and casts a warm, soft light.
An intricate network of hand-dug ditches carried water from central sources across the land to individual fields over the course of many years. This system reveals the ingenuity and persistence of early settlers who built a functioning irrigation setup without modern equipment.
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