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Russian Settlement, Utah
Russian Settlement is a ghost town in the Park Valley area of Box Elder County, Utah, United States. It is not known what name, if any, the settlers gave to their community; it has been called "Box Elder County's ghost town with
no name."〔 The settlement, which lasted about 1914–1917, was formed by a group of Russians of the religious sect known as the Molokans. The land company never provided promised facilities to make the land liveable, and the colony failed quickly. The most noticeable remnant of Russian Settlement is a cemetery with two graves.
==History==
Between 1910 and 1914, the Salt Lake City-based ''Pacific Land and Water Company'' acquired about of property in Box Elder County to resell. This land consisted of former railroad land, the property of another company absorbed by Pacific Land and Water, and tracts purchased from ranchers. Pacific Land and Water misrepresented this arid land in advertising, describing it as "amongst the richest in the state of Utah" that "only awaits the plow to yield up its vast treasures." Advertising described the local climate as "energizing," and it was claimed that the heavy growth of sagebrush indicated that the land was fertile for farming. Land was sold for US$17.50 per acre, financed at 7 percent interest, with 20 percent down and the remainder paid annually over five years.
In March 1914, a group of 20 Molokan men purchased of land. The Molokans are a Russian Protestant-like Christian sect, and this particular group belonged to a sub-sect called the ''Jumpers and Leapers''.〔 They had been living in California for about a decade, and the older members of the group were becoming concerned about the effects of American culture on the Russian youth. They also thought that the religious persecution they had experienced in their homeland was continuing in California. After a Los Angeles judge annulled a traditional marriage between two teenagers, the Molokans decided to leave. The immigrants wanted to raise their children in a rural area immersed in their own language, culture, and traditions.〔 The families, totaling approximately 100 to 125 people, traveled by train from Los Angeles to Kelton, Utah. A Pacific Land and Water employee brought them by wagon from Kelton to their new town site in April 1914.〔
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