Editing Circleville, Utah (section)

==History==
In the area that became Circleville, the first European colonizers arrived in 1864. They were [[Mormon]] settlers from [[Mormonism]]'s largest denomination the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church).<ref>Jenson, Andrew. ''Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints''. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1941) p. 141</ref> The town is located within Circle Valley which gets its name from its circular shape.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sa9SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c38DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6741%2C5066695 | title=You name it - there's a town for it | work=The Deseret News | date=January 22, 1977 | access-date=October 18, 2015 | author=Van Atta, Dale | pages=15}}</ref> The valley is completely encircled by mountains except where the [[Sevier River]] enters and exits the valley in the north and south.

In April 1866, the settlement was the site of the [[Circleville Massacre]], a [[lynching]] of 27 [[Southern Paiute]] men, women, and children by LDS settlers during the [[Black Hawk War (1865–1872)|Black Hawk War]]. In 2016, a monument was dedicated in the town park to remember the [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] people murdered during the massacre.<ref>{{cite journal |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=Summer 2016 |title=Circleville Massacre Memorial Dedication |url=https://issuu.com/utah10/docs/uhq_volume84_2016_number3 |journal=Utah Historical Quarterly |volume=84 |issue=3 |pages=262–268 |doi=10.5406/utahhistquar.84.3.0262 |s2cid=246576342 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

On June 28, 1866, the town was abandoned by the original settlers due to the war.<ref>Indian depredations in Utah p. 220</ref> A few settlers began to trickle back into the area in 1873 <ref name=hist>[http://www.archives.state.ut.us/research/agencyhistories/201.html Utah State Archives]"</ref> and the town was re-established in 1874 when Charles Wakeman Dalton crossed the mountain from [[Beaver, Utah|Beaver]] with two of his wives and family.

Circleville became an incorporated community on August 24, 1921. Local residents were interested in facilitating the public services which municipal government provides, and they were particularly interested in building a culinary water system.<ref name=hist/>