The Arizona side of The Crick.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A memorial service has been planned later this month for the one-year anniversary of fatal flash floods that ravaged a polygamous community on the Utah-Arizona border, killing at least a dozen people. Musser, a member of a community group planning the event, said people will talk about their experiences during…
Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona make up the area known as the Crick. Both towns are exclusively polygamous. B lived in the home pictured above during the first years she lived at the Crick. Located on the Hildale side of town, B went to a Utah school until the prophet placed her mother with…
This may not look like much, but the story behind it is kinda funny. Known as a hard worker, B started working with her uncle in a restaurant in Hurricane, Arizona when she was only twelve years old. That gave her the experience to eventually help open a Chester Fried Chicken at the Crick when…
This is where B. went to school. Still barred by fences at the time of our trip, students hadn’t walked the halls since it was closed over a decade before. It was a public school, but somehow the leaders were able to change much of the curriculum to reflect and support the beliefs of the…
Unfinished, OSB-sided houses( a cheap, pressed board), litter the land of Colorado City. This was a common sight as we drove around. At some point in time families started to build these huge homes and for some reason never finished them. This is an example of an inhabited, finished home. Notice the two doors that…