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Hyde Park named for first settler and for section of London By
Rachel Irvine
HYDE PARK -- April 16, 1860, William Hyde first came to the place now know as Hyde Park, Utah. He moved with his family from Lehi to help settle the northern part of the state. The town was named for Hyde and for the Daines family that also settled the town. They had emigrated from Hyde Park in London, England. When the settlers came they did not waste any time building the city. The families built their houses close together and shaped like a fort so that they would be able to have some protection from any raids from Indians. The main crops grown in Hyde Park were wheat, potatoes and corn. These early pioneers staked out a canal that started in Summit Creek just above the city. The canal was finished in the summer of 1861. It had been dug largely with shovels and picks. Five years later the second canal was completed. This became known as the middle canal. It began at Logan River Basin. A one-room log schoolhouse opened in 1865. The mail service officially began nine years later. According to the 1874 census, the city had a population of 445 consisting of 17 families. Hyde Park is still growing and changing. Today Hyde Park has a population of about 2,800. As of November 1999, the city had 151 businesses. This includes everything from an Art Academy to Zippety-Zoo Preschool.
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