Editing Tremonton, Utah (section)

==History==
Although the first settlers came to the Tremonton area in 1888, it remained largely uninhabited until just before 1900, when [[land agent]]s started promoting the Bear River Valley as a place for [[Midwestern United States|Midwestern]] farmers to relocate. Small groups from [[Nebraska]] and [[Illinois]] began to arrive in 1898. These settlers were a diverse blend of [[Protestant]] faiths, in contrast to their mostly [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Mormon]] neighbors.<ref name=boxelder>{{cite book | last = Huchel | first = Frederick M. | title = A History of Box Elder County | series = Utah Centennial County History Series | date = January 1999 | publisher = Utah State Historical Society | location = [[Salt Lake City, Utah]] | pages = 407–411 | isbn = 978-0-913738-16-0 | url = http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/History/UtahCounties/HistoryOfBoxElderCounty1996Huchel.pdf| access-date = July 16, 2012 }}</ref> Then an [[Apostolic Christian Church]] group came in 1901–1904. The main body was from [[Tremont, Illinois]], joined by a few families from [[Ohio]] and [[Kansas]]. Mostly of [[German American|German]] descent, this group was referred to as the "German colony".<ref name=boxelder2>Huchel, pp.178–180.</ref>

When a townsite was laid out in 1903, the new town was named "Tremont" at the request of the German colony. Within four years, the post office had it renamed "Tremonton" due to confusion with the central Utah town of [[Fremont, Utah|Fremont]].<ref name=boxelder/> Around 1907 the congregation was caught up in a larger [[schism (religion)|schism]] of the Apostolic Church. Some moved back to the Midwest, and the German colony came to an end.<ref name=boxelder2/> But the church left a permanent mark in the name of Tremonton.<ref name=cem>{{cite web | title = Cemetery Database | work = Utah State History | publisher = Utah Department of Community and Culture | url = http://history.utah.gov/burials/execute/viewcemetery?id=BE3401 | access-date = January 19, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130129151106/http://history.utah.gov/burials/execute/viewcemetery?id=BE3401 | archive-date = January 29, 2013 | url-status = dead | df = mdy-all }}</ref>