House from 1882 in Capitol Reef National Park
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- Unknown
- Location
- Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2008. All Rights Reserved
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This is a house in Capitol Reef National Park that was built in 1882. Despite its tiny proportions, it was originally meant to house a family of twelve. The house is built from blocks of red sandstone. It has a wooden door, a shuttered window, and a squat chimney. Behind it rises a steep, jagged, rocky hillside. A man with white hair stands in front of the house. In the foreground, there is a clump of feathery grass.
This building is one of the few that remains of Fruita. Fruita was an isolated town that started along the Fremont River in the late 1800’s. No more than ten to twelve families lived in Fruita at one time. Fruita thrived until the 1960’s, when the National Park Service bought out private landowners to expand the park.
