Editing Richmond, Utah (section)

==History==
Agrippa Cooper was the first settler in Richmond in the mid-1850s. In 1859, surveyors visited the Richmond area and determined it to be a suitable area for living, with abundant water that could be used for farming and milling, and land that was fertile for growing crops.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Peterson|first=F. Ross|title=History of Cache County|publisher=Utah State Historical Society|year=1997|isbn=0-913738-10-7|location=Salt Lake City, Utah|pages=43|language=English}}</ref> Within a few years log cabins, dugouts, and a log fort had been built. In 1860, a sawmill and a schoolhouse were erected.<ref name="Writers">{{cite book | title = Utah: A Guide to the State | publisher = Utah State Institute of Fine Arts | year = 1941 | isbn = 9780403021932 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=aBfqhqule8MC&q=richmond%2C%20utah&pg=PP1}}</ref><ref name=Housley>{{cite book |author1=Cheri Housley |author2=Marie Lundgreen |author3=Kathy Jones  |name-list-style=amp | title = Richmond | publisher = Arcadia | year = 2011 |isbn=9780738584782 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lhxhn4DeA5sC&q=richmond%2C%20utah&pg=PP1}}</ref> The city was settled mainly by [[Mormon pioneers]], such as [[Thomas Levi Whittle]], John Bair, [[Stillman Pond]], Goudy E. Hogan, and [[Marriner W. Merrill]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bair|first=Amos W.|title=History of Richmond, Utah|publisher=The Richmond Bicentennial Committee|year=1976|location=Richmond, Utah|pages=9|language=English}}</ref>

The city was likely named in honor of [[Apostle (Latter Day Saints)|LDS apostle]] [[Charles C. Rich]], who had been the Apostle who traveled to the American Falls area of California in 1850 to call the first ten Latter-day Saint missionaries (including Whittle) to serve in Hawaii.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://rsc.byu.edu/go-ye-all-world/ten-pioneering-missionaries-sandwich-islands-1850-54|title=The Ten Pioneering Missionaries of the Sandwich Islands, 1850–54|author=Mary Jane Wooger}}</ref> Other factors involved in selecting the name may also have been the rich local soil or that [[Richmond, London]] was the hometown of some of its English settlers.<ref name="Housley" />

In 1860, LDS Church President [[Brigham Young]] visited the settlement of Richmond to council and direct the settlement. The Native Americans in the Cache Valley were becoming hostile to many of the Mormon pioneers, and many violent battles had already been fought. Young counseled the settlers to "Move your families and wagons close together, then, if you are disturbed, you are like a hive of bees, and everyone is ready and knows at once what to do."<ref name=":0" /> This led the settlers to build a fort named "Fort Richmond".

Richmond was incorporated in 1868.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2BgrAAAAIAAJ&q=richmond%2C%20utah&pg=PP1|title=Laws of the Territory of Utah Passed at the Twenty-Sixth Session of the Legislative Assembly|publisher=Tribune|year=1884}}</ref>

In 1912, an election was held about adding a [[Carnegie library]]. The [[Richmond Carnegie Library]] was built on Main Street in 1914.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Richmond Library History|url=https://richmondlibrary.us/history.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130223047/https://richmondlibrary.us/history.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=November 30, 2021|website=richmondlibrary.us/history.html}}</ref>

The town's first two creameries&mdash;Cache Valley Dairy and Union Creamery&mdash;each produced up to {{convert|40000|lb|kg|abbr=on}} of milk per day in 1902. The creameries were absorbed by Utah Condensed Milk Company in 1904, and then reorganized as Sego Milk Products in 1920.<ref name="Writers" /> For many years, the plant was the largest operation west of the [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]].

The [[1962 Cache Valley earthquake]], which occurred east of Richmond in the [[Bear River Range]], destroyed many pioneer buildings in Richmond, including the original home of Marriner W. Merrill, and the two-story LDS brick Stake Tabernacle.