city Information Highland City Administration Offices 5378 West 10400 North, Highland, Utah 84003 www.highland.org 756-5751 | 756-6190 | 756-6903 Fax | 420-4860 pager City Emergency Services City Meeting Schedule Police (801) 756-9800 City Council meets every 1st and 3rd Tuesday Fire Department (801) 763-5365 of each month. The meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. County Dispatch (801) 375-3601 at City Hall (5378 West 10400 North). Animal Control (801) 756-9800 Emergency and Ambulance Services (801) 763-5365 Planning Commission meets every 2nd and 4th Public Safety Director (801) 763-5365 Tuesday of each month. The meeting starts at Administrative Assistant (801) 756-5751 7:00 p.m. at City Hall. Culinary Water (801) 492-6362 Pressurized Irrigation (801) 342-1471 Sewer (Timpanogos Service Sewer District) (801) 342-1471 Businesses in Highland The following services are provided by businesses in Highland: • Post Office • Banks • Grocery • Copy Center • LDS Clothing and Video Store • Dry Cleaning • Dining • Music store • Tire and service • Professional services including vision, • Oil and Lube dental, and health center • Convenience store with gasoline School Locations and Information School District School Address Phone / Fax Freedom Elementary Alpine 10326 N 6800 W, Highland, UT 84003 801-766-5270 / 801-766-5272 Highland Elementary Alpine 10865 N 6000 W, Highland, UT 84003 801-756-8537 / 801-763-7001 Ridgeline Elementary Alpine 6250 W 11800 N, Highland, UT 84003 801-492-0401 / 801-492-0263 Mountain Ridge Jr High Alpine 5525 W 10400 N, Highland, UT 84003 801-763-7010 / 801-763-7018 Lone Peak HS Alpine 10189 N 4800 W, Highland, UT 84003 801-763-7050 / 801-763-7064 Park Reservation Timpanogos Cave American Fork Canyon Fees National Monument To reserve a city park, get a Reserva- Entrance into American Fork Canyon is tion Request form at the City Hall. You http://www.nps.gov/tica necessary to reach Timpanogos Cave can also visit http://www.highlandcity. (801) 756-5238 call for hours National Monument. org/images/applications/parkapp.pdf to find the Reservation Request. Fill Location $3 - 3 Days out and print the Reservation Request The visitor center is located in Ameri- $10.00 - 14 Days form and bring it to the Highland City can Fork Canyon on Highway 92 just $25.00 – Annual office at least one week prior to re- 10 miles east from Interstate 15 and quested reservation date 17.2 miles from U.S. 189. message from the mayor s we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Highland City considerate of one another. They respect one another’s A being incorporated, it is appropriate that we not opinions even if they disagree. Because of all the selfless only look forward to the future but also review our past. service that has been given, the city is a better place. While not a comprehensive history, this document is Please enjoy this glance at the past. Then as you look intended to educate, inform, and maybe even entertain forward to the future of Highland, remember we are us. What are the events and who are the people that have the ones who will determine what that future looks like. helped create the wonderful place we call home? If we Find ways to join and be part of your community. Take know where we have been, it also helps us get to where we your turn at serving on committees and in municipal want to be. Our hope is that you gain a sense of apprecia- government. Esteem and care for your neighbors. Let’s tion for the past of Highland City. celebrate our differences by being respectful and treat I want to express gratitude to the committee of vol- each other with civility. Highland is a magnificent place unteers who have researched, compiled, and published because of its residents. Please keep that tradition alive this history for our use. They have done a grand job at and well. The feel of Highland will go away if we do not giving us a glimpse of our past. Highland’s history is full work on keeping it. Each of us must do our part. of volunteers who have given of themselves to make it a better place. The committee has continued that legacy. As this document reflects; Highland, the commu- Thank You nity, is all about people. As a resident of over 26 years, my fondest memories are of the people I know and respect. I strongly believe that the quality of people who have and still call Highland home are what make this a special place. People care about each other. They are Mayor Jay W. Franson 4 36 contents 1 Mayor’s Message 22 Larry Miller 24 James A Hewlett 4 Early History of Highland 26 Ed Scott By Petrea G. Kelly By Petrea G. Kelly 10 Pioneer Cabin 28 Jess Adamson By Kathryn Schramm 30 Highland City Staff 12 The Stice Family, How We Lived On Highland By Elisabeth Luntz By Elisabeth Luntz with Carolyn S. Kitchen Activities city government 34 Highland Fling 16 Incorporation of the Town of Highland 36 Highland Rodeo By Donald LeBaron and Elisabeth Luntz By Jennie Spykes 18 Don LeBaron 38 Youth Sports 20 Eric Adamson By Jeanne Hodges and Reed Chidester Acknowledgements Art Director | Rachael B. Haney Editors | Petrea G. Kelly, Brian K. Kelly members of the Highland city History committee Petrea G. Kelly Brian K. Kelly Elisabeth Luntz Craig Walker Kathryn Schramm Jeanne Hodges Don LeBaron Kurt Hall city representatives far left: First Mayor and farmer, Don LeBaron feeding one of his cows. left: Highland Rodeo egg race. Mayor Jay Franson 1983. above: Robert Hall on 1947 John Deere Model H tractor he restored. It belonged to Lish Boley who Wini Jensen owned the farm where this picture was taken (now Mystic Cove subdivision.) The silo still stands as a familiar landmark along the highway. Emily Gillingwater other contributors Christine Dalley Eric Adamson Yukus Y. Inouye Carolyn Stice Kitchen David Durfey Mitzi Hedges Carl Day Wayne Day Ruby Buhler and her family 39 Youth Council LeRoy Buhler By Petrea G. Kelly with Wini Jensen Quentin White 40 Highland Arts Council Bob Carter By Elisabeth Luntz Kittie Tenny Carey Crockett Church Carol Oertli 44 Eccleastical History of Highland By Cora Beck Adamson (Excerpts) scHools special thanks to Gary E. Smith, a long-time resident of Highland who 50 The Schools of Highland City By Elisabeth Luntz allowed us to use his paintings in this publication. Each of these Highland scenes was painted during the time 56 Higland City Map of incorporation and founding of our city some thirty years ago. upper left: George F. White harvesting hay in about 1936. His favor- corner’s area, across the street from the current Kountry Korner. ca.1937. ite horse’s names were Burt and Bus. upper right: Don LeBaron with lower right: Kenneth and Lucia White’s family often enjoyed water- one of his prize pigs, about 1965. lower left: Old Alpine/Highland melon picnics in American Fork Canyon on lazy Sunday afternoons. Children, school bus “Jitney.” Elizabeth Wilkins on hood. 1920. middle right: Kenna, Quentin, Larrie, Janet, Sherma with their mother Lucia. Photo taken Johnny Greenland’s store and gas station sat on the southwest corner of the four about 1938. The 1932 Ford is still in Quentin White’s possession. by petrea g. kelly he first recorded inhabitants of Utah County were members of the Laguna or Timpanogotizis Ute tribe of Native Americans. The Spanish exploration party led by Fathers Domingo and Escalante met some of them as they traveled toward Utah Valley in 1776. In September the exploring party came to the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon, but the Natives who were camped near the American Fork River set fire to the grass. This appar- ently hostile action as well as the lateness of the season discouraged the explorers from venturing further into the valley. Fifty years passed and the Timpanogotizis continued to fish in the lake, catch deer, jackrabbits, and fowls to eat, and make their clothing from deerskin and rabbit skins; they lived in little huts made of willows. Then the trappers began to frequent the area hunting beaver. The trappers called the streams that flowed into Utah Lake “Forks” thus Spanish Fork was named because of the early Spanish explorers; Provo Fork was named for one of the trappers, Etienne Provost; and American Fork got its name because it was a favorite trapping ground for members of the American Fur Company such as Jedediah Smith, William Ashley (for a time Utah Lake was called Ashley Lake), Peter Skene Ogden, and Jim Bridger. In 1843 and 1844 John C. Fremont, an explorer for the United States government, passed through Utah Valley. The Mormon pioneers arrived in Salt Lake Valley above: The original road now known as SR 92 or the Highland in 1847. As soon as they had built simple shelters there, Highway, was unpaved and always closed in winter. It was a good some of them traveled north and south to find appropri- place to ski. below: John Greenland between his gravity feed gas ate sites for future settlements. pumps. A measured amount of gas was pumped into the tanks on the In March of 1849 a settlement was established in top of these pumps—then it would drain out into the automobile. Provo. The following year Stephen Chipman and his son William Henry, and Azra Adams and his son Nathan Early American Fork settler, Alexander Adamson is often credited with calling the bench to the north “Highland” because its dry, rocky, rugged landscape reminded him of the Highlands of Scotland.