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This is lucky number 13 in our series of post of why we love living in Southern Utah, this post is Cedar City specific.  We love Cedar City because it is the “Festival City” , meaning that there seems to always be something going on.  Right now The Utah Summer Games are winding down.  They are an event similar to the Olympic games and provide people of all nearly all ages to compete in athletic events.  Soccer, basketball, archery are just some of the events.  The games are centered here in Cedar City, but some of the events take place as far away as the Provo area.

We are just a few days away from the Utah Shakespearean Festival’s beginning.  This of course runs the rest of the Summer and features Broadway plays as well as Shakespeare’s plays.  The Neil Simon Festival runs at the same time and obviously features his works as well as other Broadway styled plays.  It is fun to live in a City that is still small enough that you notice the vibrancy of these festivals, along with the others that take place throughout the year.  It is fun to see the people that come from out of town to participate in these events, and we welcome them!

Looking at Main Street and the Red Hill from 200 North

This was a shot looking towards the Main Street Park and the Red Hill in Cedar City.

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This is really becoming a fun series to blog about.  If I were talking, I would probably just keep rambling on and on and on.  You get the picture!  I have talked a little bit about some of the “ancient history” of the area, I also want to touch on the more modern History of the area.  Most people know that the as far as recorded history goes, the Mormon Pioneers settled this area.  Many of my ancestors were among those pioneers.

The town of Parowan served as a starting point for many settlement expeditions, including Cedar City, St. George, Las Vegas and San Bernardino.  Parowan is a beautiful small town, just what a small town should be, it has it’s own stores and restaurants, it is a very cool place to live.

Old Parowan Rock Church

Pioneer Home in Parowan

Holyoak House

The Green's House

Guymon House

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Forbes issued its list of th 200 most livable cities in America.  Two Utah cities made that list, Odgen, and Provo.  What is surprising to me is that Cedar City wasn’t on that list!  Granted we are a lot smaller, but Ogden, number 2 on the list and Provo, number 3?  Surely someone needs to divert south!  Just kidding mostly, I have spent a lot of time near both of these Wasatch Front Cities and they are nice. 

They both have Universities, (just like Cedar City), they both have low crime rates, (also like Cedar City)  and we don’t have the traffic issues!  I am just saying that I think had the writers spent some time down here, that we would have made the list!  All kidding aside, here is the link for the article:

http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/29/cities-livable-pittsburgh-lifestyle-real-estate-top-ten-jobs-crime-income.html

As I was putting together my blogs on the cities that we work in here in Iron County along Interstate 15.  I want everyone to realize that there are communities west of Cedar City that I haven't yet featured in this series.  I haven't been out there in a while, so when I get out there I will get some photographs and feature them.  They are New Castle, Beryl and Modena in Iron County.  There is also Enterprise in Washington County.

This brings me to this blog, New Harmony is a little over 25 miles South of Cedar City, it is in Washington County and along I15.  We do work in New Harmony, so I will do a feature on it.  New Harmony is named after Harmony Pennsylvania, where many of the early settlers of the area were from.  It is a city that really is spread out over a large area, with large farms and ranches that are still worked.  There are some older homes as well as some gorgeous mini mansions.

The original part of New Harmony is several miles West of Interstate 15, but Harmony Ranches is right along the Interstate.  These photos are taken just outside of the original part of New Harmony:

As you can see, New Harmony sits at the base of Pine Valley Mountain, the ridge that is in the sunlight along with a large part of the Mountain were burned in the fires last summer.

This photo is a little North of the previous photo. 

This is south of the original photograph.

Continuing our series of cities and towns in Iron County along the Interstate 15 we come to Kanarraville.  Kanarraville is a little over 20 miles South of Cedar City.  It is a small community that was named after a Paiute Indian Chief that was killed after being thrown from a horse.  There are still several ranches and farms in Kanarraville.  It also has some luxury homes on acreage.  It is another of the gems of Iron County:

The second pictures looks a little more to the South, both photos were taken from a frontage road East of I15

I am now going to use a few photographs of Cedar City, which is the next city along Interstate 15 as one travels South.  Cedar City is the second oldest city in Iron County.  It is the home of Southern Utah University, the Utah Shakespearean Festival, as well as numerous other festivals.  I have a lot of photos of Cedar City, so I have many to show and chose from.  It is the largest city in Iron County.

I am sorry I couldn't get the gas station sign out without a lot of photo shopping.  Cedar City is home to the Iron mines where the county gets it's name.  

This one is looking from the West side of Cedar City.  Southern Utah University is the left side of the buildings near the top.

The above shot is one that I have used before, it is of Cedar City looking down from The Mountain.

I am continuing my little series of Towns that we work in here in Iron County.  Enoch is an interesting city, originally a group of farms with few houses, it has become more or less a little bedroom community of Cedar City.  Which is unique, as Cedar City isn't really that large of a city.  It is also unique as it is one the one community that is situated West of Interstate 15.  Cedar City has part of the city West of the Interstate, but it has spread that direction.

Part of this equation has made it difficult to get a very good photograph of the city.  Anyway, here it is:

Enoch is also unique in that most of the lots are at least .4 of an acre, so it really gives the feeling of being out in country.  It draws is name from the Bible.  It is a nice city and easily the second largest in Iron County.

This is another in the now series that we are putting together about the beautiful towns that we also work in.  We are blessed to have several of these really nice communities, some are larger than others but all enjoy very beautiful surroundings.  This is Summit, Utah; one of the smallest of the communities along Interstate 15 in Iron County.  

This photograph was taken from a dirt frontage road east of Interstate 15.  Summit is the town that is the highest in elevation along Interstate 15 in Utah.

This is another distance photo only this one is of Parowan, Utah.  Parowan is approximately 15 miles North of Cedar City.  I thought that I would take photos of some of the smaller towns that we work in.  Parowan is the County Seat of Iron County and is often called the "Mother City" of Southern Utah as most of the Pioneers that settled other communities came from or started from Parowan.  This photograph is taken from Old Highway 91 South West of Parowan.

Parowan is another town whose name comes from a Native American word, this time it means evil water or bad water.  There is a lake west of town called the Little Salt Lake, it is mostly a dry lake, but in times past, it did have water, which was bad:

Much like most of Iron County, Parowan is another jewel along Interstate 15.  As you can see it is located in a very beautiful valley!

One of the great things about living in the Iron County area is that there are several small towns that we work in besides Cedar City.  One of them is the town of Paragonah, it is approximately 20 miles North of Cedar City and is honestly one of the jewels in Iron County.  The name is pronounced "Paragoonah", which is derived from a Native American word meaning sweet or good water.  This is a photograph to show just how picturesque the town is from Interstate 15.  This photo was taken from atop a bridge crossing I15:

As you can see there are still several farms and ranches in and around Paragonah, but it sets in absolutely gorgeous surroundings. It is a very quaint, and beautiful small town.