Four-Patch Pinwheel

The running joke is Brigham Young sent a group of settlers to tame the wilderness in the southern extremes of Utah Territory. When they got to the south end of the Salt Lake valley, they decided to set up camp until the wind stopped blowing. They’ve been here ever since. The truth is a little different. One of the first white settlers in this area was Ebenezer Brown, a cattleman who sold beef to ‘49ers heading for California gold. Like the children’s song, The Farmer in the Dell, he brought his wife along. She brought her kids and her brother, and he brought his wife and her kids. Before long there were 20 families in the area. They decided to call themselves the town of South Willow Creek. But the postal service said they needed a unique name (Utah has more willows and creeks than folks with imagination), so they used their first mayor’s last name: Draper.