Fountain Green
After Albert Petty surveyed this site in
1859, pioneers came, built homes, erected a
meeting house of logs cut by William Gibson
and Asbury Parks. In 1861, Bishop Robert L.
Johnson was first Relief Society president,
Catherine Oldroyd served as midwife. Bernard
Snow supplied flour from his burr mill in
1867. John Green operated adobe and brick
yard. Black Hawk War forced settlers to
move for safety. They returned and built
fort in fall of 1866.
The bell atop this monument rang its
message from the tower of the first
schoolhouse, 1880. As each new schoolhouse
was built, the bell was transferred;
tolling time, fire and curfew for 88
years.
