Thursday, July 28, 2016

It is back to the future time in Nephi, Utah. The Juab County Complex looks the same today as when it was built nearly a hundred years ago.

Although I am not sure of how long it took for it's construction, I do recall my father talking of coming in to town from Nortonville, and became friends with it's builder, who publicly declared he built the then called Nephi High School to last a hundred years. I believe that was in 1920, with the first students moving in during 1922. Through the years, various people and groups have tried to tear it down, but it has survived quite well, and it is only an assumption, but back then, it may have looked like it does today. One photo is taken from Alice McCune's book which shows the first Nephi High School, which was later called "Central School", and located just east of the present day ambulance shop on 1st North or Track Street. That was around the year 1900, with the photographer standing near the west side of where the rose garden is. The first entry shows my official student body card and a good place to hide out if one was to travel all the way up to Provo, Utah.





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