Main Street - Cedar City, Utah
Founded on Iron Ore
 

      
The relatively
      brief history of Cedar City dates to the mid-1800s, when Brigham
      Young dispatched Mormon settlers to the area to mine iron ore
      from rich sandstone deposts (above, as seen in Cedar Breaks National
      Monument). Though the iron mines declined over the next few decades,
      Cedar City (below) became the center of a growing agricultural
      industry in southern Utah. At the turn of the 20th Century, Southern
      Utah University was established Cedar City. 

      
 

      
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