Hatton, formerlyPetersburg, is anunincorporated community and near-ghost town inMillard County,Utah, United States. It lies at an elevation of 4,826 feet (1,471 meters).[1]
In 1859, Peter Robison and Peter Boyce fromFillmore and other settlers from nearby settled where theMormon Road crossedCorn Creek, three miles northwest ofKanosh'sPahvant village on the creek and downstream from theCorn Creek Indian Farm.[2]: 166 The settlement was sometimes calledLower Corn Creek but was named Petersburg for Peter Robison, later its first postmaster. Boyce succeededAnson Call as Indian agent at Corn Creek, appointed byBrigham Young. Petersburg was one of the larger stations and rest stops on the Gilmer and Salisbury Stage Company line from theUtah Southern Railroad rail-head in Juab County to the mining boom town ofPioche, Nevada from 1864 to 1871. Between 1867 and 1869, most of its inhabitants moved upstream to build the town ofKanosh at the original Pahvant village site. In 1869, the Petersburg schoolhouse was moved and reconstructed at Kanosh. From 1877 to 1940, Petersburg, now a small agricultural settlement, was renamed and had a post office called Hatton.[3]: 86, 99–101, 114–117, 124, 129–130 [4]: 179
This settlement is now almost aghost town, with little to see of its past existence among the irrigated fields along Hatton Lane.[1] There are however several occupied homes at the town site.
38°50′20″N112°27′24″W / 38.83889°N 112.45667°W /38.83889; -112.45667
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