Cedar City Real Estate

In the beginning, Cedar City, Utah was called, ‘Little Muddy.’ It was later renamed, ‘Coal Creek’ by about thirty five pioneers who left a town called Parowan, about twenty miles or so north. ‘Cedar City,’ it was later called. The trees was mistakenly believed to be cedar trees, of course, but in reality they are most definitely junipers. In fact, any Cedar City real estate agent will tell you that some people still refer to the trees as cedars.

When iron deposits in November of 1851 were were located in the south of Utah, many volunteers rushed to colonize the Iron Mission area. In fact, the first iron to be mined west of the Missouri River was here. Nevertheless, problems with the company’s furnace, catastrophic floods and ultimately, severe fighting with the Indians closed the iron foundry in 1858.

Perhaps dozens of mining towns and other settlements in the vast region died out when Cedar City did not. Cedar City residents explored agriculture and continued to live. Indeed, when World War II depleted iron form iron works across the nation, Cedar City began making iron ore again to assist in the the war effort and even continued producing iron well into the 1980’s. You will find that any given Cedar City real estate will have a rich past.

Eventually log homes were constructed and some families were brought from nearby Parowan. It may be possible to locate Cedar City real estate on these original sites by the way. Wagons also served as a temporary fort to protect them from hostile tribes before the log homes were finished. An ideal site for the fort was selected near the blast furnace - which is at the city park now.

Cottonwood log houses were erected just like a fort at the western base of the big hill. Indians, however, used a nearby hill to attack them. As iron workers flocked to the site, nevertheless, a newer and much larger site was found. It was occupied by new settlers and those pioneers who wanted to move by 1853. The sudden outbreak of hostilities with the Indians in the summer of 1853, however, made living there very difficult and the entire fort had to be evacuated in two days to a more protected site. The Walker Indian War had broken out and, of course, protection of the families was considered vital.

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