Curlew Valley
Curlew Valley, named after the curlew snipe
that nests here, extends from Snowville, Utah, to
the Idaho towns of Stone and Holbrook. The
first recorded white men were Peter Skene
Ogden's large party of trappers, who camped on Deep Creek
December 27, 1828.
Some of the discharged members of the Mormon Battalion, on
their way from California to Salt Lake City on September 18, 1848,
camped on Deep Creek and also in a cave one mile east called
Hollow rock.
The beginning of Deep Creek is a large spring at Holbrook which
runs through the center of the valley and has never
varied even in dry years. About one mile southwest is
Rocky Ford, where the pioneers were able to cross on
solid rock.
In 1869 William Robbins, Thomas Showell, and William M.
Harris settled at the Curlew Sinks, ten miles west of here, where
Deep Creek sinks into the ground. The old pioneer trail and the
stage line whent through their ranch.
The first townsite in Curlew Valley was Snowville, named in
honor of President Lorenzo Snow, and laid out August 14, 1876.
No. 435 1987 Curlew Valley Camp
This bell hung in the belfry of the old
rock building, on this site, dedicated in July
1887. It was used by both The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the
school. It rang for nearly 80 years to call the
children to school and to warn of danger.
The engraved stone in this monument
came from the same building.
