5 MEETING HOUSES IN MORGAN COUNTY. During the earliest settlement of the Valley, the people met at what was then called the Line Creek Colony, now Milton. They continued doing so untill 1863. Thomas J.Thurston presided over the settlements in the South end of the Valley with Richard Fry as Counselor. Charles S.Peterson had charge of the wards in the north end of the County. In the year 1863, Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball with a brass band visited the people and held conference for two days. One feature of the conferecne was the singing of the good old song "Hard Times come again No More "accompanied by the band. At the conference was display of vegatables, fruits and grains. In the later part of the year 1966 William W. Cluff was called to preside over Morgan, Summit and Wasatch Counties as Presiding Bishop, with headquarters at Coalville. He held this position for about three years. Willard G. Smith presided over Morgan County as a Bishop before it became a Stake, and on July 1-1877 Morgan Stake was organized with Willard G. Smith President, Richard Fry and Samuel Francis, as Counselors and John S. Barrett Clerk and Historian. The people built c bowery 100 feet square in which to hold the Comference. Apostle Lorenzo Snow and Franklin D. Richards were in attendance, also W. W. Cluff. In those early days the first public building to be erected in a community was a school house which was used for a meeting house. In giving the account of the early settlement of Porterville. Mrs. Electa Porter says "A ward was organized very early and a log room built where schools 2- and meetings were held. The furniture was nothing elaborate a fire place for warmth and slabs with legs put in the rough side for the seats. In Croydon the first settlers built a fort from red sand stone and the houses were built in this form for prot¬ection. A school house and meeting house was built in the square inside. In 1864 in Worth Morgan the people built a log house to hold meetings in and in the winter of 1868 they quarried rock and hauled it down into town and the next summer they built a rock meeting house 24--40 feet. This was to be used for school and meeting purposes. In South Morgan the people held meetings in private homes for awhile. In the year 1868 they taxed themselves to build a brick school house. This was used for meetings and also for Courts, Theaters and Dances. The Morgan Stake House was built by donation at a cost of $8000.00 40 by 80 feet. Much of the work was done by John K. Hall of Enterprise. The L.D.S. Seminary building was erected at a cost of $8000.00 and was completed in September 1926.