Editing Provo, Utah (section)

==History==
[[File:Fort Utah c1850.jpg|thumb|right|Ft. Utah in 1850]]
The Provo area was originally called Timpanogas, a [[Colorado River Numic language|Numic]] ([[Ute people]]) word perhaps meaning "rock river".<ref name="Bright2004">{{cite book|last=Bright|first=William|author-link=William Bright|title=Native American Placenames of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5XfxzCm1qa4C&pg=PA495|access-date=February 10, 2019|year=2004|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-3598-4|page=495}}</ref> The area was inhabited by the [[Timpanogos]].<ref name=historytogo5 /> It was the largest and most settled area in modern-day Utah.<ref name=Virginia >{{cite book|title=Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dMS9AwAAQBAJ&q=%22Utah+lake%22+among+Ute&pg=PT32|author=Virginia McConnell Simmons|date = May 18, 2011|isbn = 9781457109898}}</ref> The ample food from the Provo River made the Timpanogos a peaceful people.{{clarify|date=June 2022}}<ref name=historytogo5>{{cite web|url=http://historytogo.utah.gov/people/ethnic_cultures/the_history_of_utahs_american_indians/chapter5.html|title=Chapter Five - The Northern Utes of Utah|access-date=July 25, 2016|archive-date=May 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508235935/http://historytogo.utah.gov/people/ethnic_cultures/the_history_of_utahs_american_indians/chapter5.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The area also served as the traditional meeting place for the [[Ute people|Ute]] and [[Shoshone]] tribes and was used as a common location for worship of their creator deity.{{clarify|date=June 2022}}<ref name=blackhawk>{{cite book|title=Indian Depredations in Utah|url=http://www.blackhawkwarutah.com/|author=Peter Gottfredson|access-date=December 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180121184357/http://www.blackhawkwarutah.com/|archive-date=January 21, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Silvestre Vélez de Escalante]], a Spanish [[Franciscan]] missionary-explorer, is considered the first European explorer to have visited the area in 1776. He was guided by two Timpanogos Utes, whom he called Silvestre and Joaquín.<ref name=Joaquin>{{cite web|url=http://www.provo.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=2258|title=Joaquin Neighborhood Plan pg. 3 :: City of Provo|access-date=January 19, 2017|archive-date=February 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225000113/http://www.provo.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=2258|url-status=dead}}</ref> Escalante chronicled this first European exploration across the [[Great Basin Desert]]. The Europeans did not build a permanent settlement but traded with the Timpanogos, whom they called Lagunas (lake people) or Come Pescado (fish eaters).<ref name=Virginia />

In 1847, the [[Mormon pioneers]] arrived in the [[Salt Lake Valley]], which was just north of [[Mount Timpanogos|Timpanogos Mountain]]. At first, the Natives were friendly with the Mormons. But, as relations deteriorated with the Shoshoni and Utes because of disputes over land and cattle, tensions rose. Because of the reported stolen goods of settlers by the Utes, Brigham Young gave small militia orders "to take such measures as would put a final end to their [Indian] depredations in future." This ended in what is known as the [[Battle Creek massacre]], in modern-day [[Pleasant Grove, Utah]].
 
The Mormons continued pushing into Timpanog lands. In 1849, 33 [[Mormon]] families from Salt Lake City established [[Fort Utah]]. In 1850, Brigham Young sent an army from Salt Lake to drive out the Timpanogos in what is called the [[Provo War]].<ref name=mailed_fist>{{cite web|url=http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/USHSArchPub/id/7265|title=Utah Historical Quarterly Volume XLVI :: Utah State Historical Society - Historic and Prehistoric Publications|access-date=July 23, 2016|archive-date=August 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817130542/http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/USHSArchPub/id/7265|url-status=dead}}</ref> Escalating tensions with the Timpanog contributed to the [[Walkara#Walker War|Walker War]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2017}} Fort Utah was renamed Provo in 1850 for [[Étienne Provost]],<ref>{{Citation | last = Cannon | first = Kenneth | title = Utah History Encyclopedia | publisher = University of Utah Press | year = 1994 | chapter = Provo | chapter-url = https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/p/PROVO.shtml | url = https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221103115958/https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/p/PROVO.shtml | archive-date = November 3, 2022 | isbn =9780874804256 | access-date = March 26, 2024}}</ref> an early [[French-Canadian]] trapper who arrived in the region in 1825.

In 1850, the first schoolhouse was constructed in Provo, built within Utah Fort.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.provolibrary.com/historical-provo-timeline |title=Provo Library timeline of Provo |access-date=May 27, 2018 |archive-date=May 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180527201337/http://www.provolibrary.com/historical-provo-timeline |url-status=dead }}</ref>

As more [[Latter-day Saints]] arrived, Provo quickly grew as a city. It soon was nicknamed ''The Garden City'' with a large number of fruit orchards and gardens there.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.utah.com/destinations/cities-towns/provo/things-to-do/history/|title=Provo - History|website=www.utah.com}}</ref>

In 1872, a railroad reached Provo. It was also this year that the Provo Woolen Mills opened. They were the first large factory in Provo and employed about 150 people, initially mainly skilled textile laborers who had emigrated from Britain.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://historytogo.utah.gov/places/olympic_locations/historyofprovo.html |title=Utah History to Go article on Provo |access-date=May 27, 2018 |archive-date=March 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317125714/http://historytogo.utah.gov/places/olympic_locations/historyofprovo.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>