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    Hildale is a city in Washington County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,127 at the 2020 census. Hildale is located on the border of Utah and...
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  • mayor of Hildale, Utah. Upon taking office, Jessop became the city’s first female mayor. For decades before Jessop's administration, Hildale was controlled...
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    the community to Colorado City (on the Arizona side of the border) and Hildale (on the Utah side) to eliminate any ties to the Short Creek raids. In January...
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  • History of President Rulon Jeffs. Hildale, Utah: Twin City Courier Press. Jeffs, Rulon (2000). Priesthood Articles. Hildale, Utah: Twin City Courier Press...
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    The Short Creek Community (now Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah), founded in 1913, began as a small ranching town in the Arizona Strip. In the...
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  • memoir. Jessop was born Carolyn Blackmore and raised by her parents in Hildale, Utah, with her older sister and younger siblings. She is a sixth-generation...
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    YFZ Ranch. Allred sent 30 to 40 construction workers from Colorado City–Hildale to work on the property, which soon included three 3-story houses, each...
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  • co-founder of Short Creek, Arizona (later Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah), home to the polygynous Short Creek Community. Joseph Smith Jessop...
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  • Rebecca Musser Born Rebecca Wall (1976-08-31) August 31, 1976 (age 47) Hildale, Utah, United States Nationality American Alma mater Alta Academy (Grades...
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    polygamists just south of Colorado City. Following Johnson's death in Hildale, Utah, and burial at the Isaac W. Carling Memorial Park on November 25...
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    flood-ravaged Hildale". Hildale, Utah: KTSU. September 16, 2015. Retrieved September 17, 2015. David DeMille (October 7, 2015). "Flood-ravaged Hildale gets outside...
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  • further complicated when her mother was reassigned to marry another man in Hildale, Utah. FLDS leaders orchestrated a marriage between Wall, then 14, and...
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    Jeffs controlled almost all of the land in Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, which was part of a church trust called the United Effort Plan (UEP)...
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  • counselor" in some church documents. Jeffs was the FLDS bishop for both Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona. According to The Salt Lake Tribune,...
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  • be a counselor to Fred Jessop, who was a bishop in the FLDS Church in Hildale, Utah. Warren Jeffs has claimed that when he performed this ordination...
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    small numbers of members to other places outside of Colorado City and Hildale–such as the site in Texas. Instances such as this can lead to problems...
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  • not always, place young girls with older men. Most FLDS members live in Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona, about 350 miles southwest of Salt Lake...
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  • ex-Mormons; and the FLDS fundamentalist communes in the rural communities like Hildale in southernmost Utah and the nearby towns of Colorado City, Arizona and...
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    Church is estimated to have 10,000 members residing in the sister cities of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona; Eldorado, Texas; Westcliffe, Colorado;...
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    from polygamist organizations in cities such as Colorado City or adjacent Hildale, Utah. The FLDS church was sued by six "lost boys" in August 2004 for "alleged...
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    and the Short Creek Community, later called Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah. The Council of Friends would ultimately split into four Mormon fundamentalist...
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    Eldorado. The Ranch was settled by members of the FLDS Church who left Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona under increasing scrutiny from the media...
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  • Water Canyon High School (WCHS) is a public high school in Hildale, Utah, United States. It was established in 2016 and is part of the Washington County...
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  • 1953 Short Creek raid that had occurred in Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, United States, collectively known as "Short Creek," a community...
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    state authorities used them to prosecute bigamy. Colorado City, Arizona; Hildale, Utah; Bountiful, British Columbia; and sites in Mexico are historic locations...
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  • since been documented in the twin towns of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, both of which were formerly known as "Short Creek" (or the Short...
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    Cave is located in Mohave County, Arizona southwest of Colorado City and Hildale, Utah and southeast of Hurricane, Utah. It is close to a large power transmission...
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    Tech University in St. George, with campus extensions in Hurricane and Hildale (Water Canyon Center). Retail utility companies operating in Washington...
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  • Clara, Ivins, Hurricane, La Verkin, Central, Veyo, Pine Valley, Leeds, Hildale, Springdale, and Toquerville, covering an area of over 2,400 square miles...
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    concentration of members lives in the twin cities of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, as well as in Bountiful, British Columbia. The church built a temple...
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