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 The clip shown on the right is from the 1967 movie "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman. The bicycle riding scene was filmed in Grafton and the Old School house can be seen in the clip. Four other films where also made in that location. |
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Grafton, Utah "Ghost town" In 1857 Brigham Young sent settlers to Southern Utah to grow cotton. In 1859 Nathan Teeney lead a group of settlers to the Grafton area to grow cotton. The pioneers in Grafton were so zealous in their first year of planting cotton, that they didn't plant enough corn, cane, and other crops to feed their families. In addition to the shortage of food, the early settlers struggled with the flooding of the Virgin River, along with the loss of their dams and irrigation ditches. In 1866 the Grafton settlers moved their families to Rockville to remain safe from the Indians during the Black Hawk War. During the day the men of Grafton would work their farms in Grafton, then return to their families in Rockville at night. After a treaty was signed with Chief Blackhawk in 1867, the residents of Grafton returned home. The combination church and school that is in Grafton today was built in 1886. The last class at the old school was held in 1919. When a new canal was built in 1906 to deliver Virgin River water to the Hurricane bench twenty miles downstream, The Grafton men who helped build the canal, moved to the Hurricane Valley with their families. |
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Grafton - Smithsonian Butte Tour
Its a beautiful tour across the Virgin river on
the Rockville bridge built in 1924 as the only route at that time to
the North rim on the Grand Canyon. To the see the Old "Ghost"
Town of Grafton and the Cemetery. From there will go
over the old trail to Short Creek, That the pioneers of the 1800.s
used during the days of the Black Hawk Indian wars. We stops to so
you can photograph Zion and the Red Rock Canyons. Wild
life is abundant in much of this area. During the tour we will
share the history of the Anasazi and Piute Indians and the pioneers
of the 1800's.
The Grafton - Smithsonian Butte Tour is a 1 1/2
hour 4x4 tour
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