Just returned from several days doing my genealogy thing in Brigham City and Ogden. Just cuz Smiths Food King needs a parking lot is that ANY REASON to destroy the beautiful Lorenzo Snow home? Just cuz some insurance agency wants some office space do we ALWAYS have to tear down the past and pieces of history?????????????????????
In both towns I spent several hours driving around to photograph ancestral homes for the Forsgren blogs. I grew very weary and very sad, when again and again I had to make the note: "No longer there"
Why does progress always have to be at war with our past???
Here is the photo of one gem that hasn't been visited by the wrecking ball! Worth the visit!
The Oscar Forsgren home (4th child of Peter Adolph Forsgren)
124 South 5th West, Brigham City, Utah
In 1918 this home was featured in a newspaper article about this roof style.
And this is what an arsenist did to the historic Grist Mill, later purchased by the John H. Bott Monument company! (The Bott's have marriage connections to the Forsgrens as well as having created most of the headstones in Brigham City Cemetery). The 26 yr. old man who set the fire was caught and sentenced to two years in prison. Ironically he (a Hunsaker) has great historic roots in this town as well!
ARGH !!!!
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