Mormon homestead, #0973
Mormon Homesteaders established 27 homesteads at the turn of the 20th century in the Grovont area of Jackson Hole because of relatively fertile soil, shelter from winds by Blacktail Butte and access to the Gros Ventre River. Despite the harsh conditions, Mormon settlers grew crops by using irrigation. These hardy settlers dug ditches by hand and with teams of horses, building an intricate network of levees and dikes to funnel water from central ditches to their fields between 1896 and 1937. Water still flows in some of these ditches, #0973
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