Editing Payson, Utah (section)

==Culture==
[[File:PaysonCityCenter EverettRichmondCabin.jpg|thumb|A historic cabin at Payson City Center]]
Payson is the site of the annual Scottish Heritage Festival, held every July. Other annual festivities include a salmon supper, held every August, and the annual Onion Days festival, held every Labor Day weekend.  The city also has band concerts in the Memorial Park, and has had such concerts since the early 1950s.

Most of the 1984 film ''[[Footloose (1984 film)|Footloose]]'' was filmed in and around Payson, in settings such as Payson High School and Sudsie's, a local car wash.  The town was also one of the locations for the 1985 thriller ''[[Warning Sign (film)|Warning Sign]]''.  Payson was the setting of the 1979 children's movie ''[[Banjo the Woodpile Cat]]'', as the city was the childhood home of director [[Don Bluth]]. The town is a film favorite for [[Church Educational System|seminary]] videos filmed by the LDS Church. The Mormon-themed comedy film ''[[Baptists at Our Barbecue]]'' was also shot on Payson's historic Main Street. More recently, Payson was used to film most of the Disney Channel movie ''[[Hatching Pete]]''.

Payson was originally named ''Peteetneet'', after a [[Ute people|Ute]] Indian chief who lived near Payson's current location.  A monument still stands to Chief Peteetneet at the [[Peteetneet Museum and Cultural Arts Center]], originally the first school in Payson.  The Peteetneet Museum is a historical gem in the community and is known for its historical significance, beauty, and great sledding. A committee headed by Marva Loy Eggett has recently raised funds for the Peteetneet Museum glass elevator. Construction was completed on it the summer of 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.peteetneetmuseum.org/|title=Fence Company Macon Helps Museum}}</ref>

Payson celebrates its heritage through monuments such as the historic Main Street, Peteetneet Museum and Cultural Arts Center, and several Payson Historical Society markers that note houses and other sites in the city over a hundred years old.

The city was the birthplace of singer-songwriter [[Jewel (singer)|Jewel]].

It is the hometown of Disney animator and film producer [[Don Bluth]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mormonsinbusiness.org/mormon_businessmen/don-bluth |title=Don Bluth, Mormon Animator and Businessman {{!}} Mormons in Business |website=mormonsinbusiness.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110115064455/http://www.mormonsinbusiness.org/mormon_businessmen/don-bluth |archive-date=2011-01-15}}</ref>

The city has large numbers of persons with [[Scottish American|Scottish]] and [[Scots-Irish American|Scots-Irish]] ancestry. However, the expansion of the [[Salt Lake City]] metropolitan area into Payson has changed the city's ethnic and religious makeup with additions of Catholic (including [[Eastern Rite Catholic]] and [[Greek Catholic]] brought in by [[Greek people|Greek]], Italian and [[Yugoslavs|Yugoslav]] settlers), [[Presbyterian]], [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical]], and [[Wicca]]n. Payson, like Provo, has a predominantly [[Latter-day Saint]] population,{{citation needed|date=July 2012}} but other religious sects and denominations such as [[Lutherans]], [[Methodists]], [[Roman Catholics]] and [[Southern Baptists]]. The imprint of Scandinavian settlement is found in thousands of residents with Scandinavian (i.e. [[Danes|Danish]], [[Norwegians|Norwegian]], [[Swedes|Swedish]], and [[Icelanders|Icelandic]]) surnames; [[Swiss people]] and [[Austrians]]; and since the 1930s, [[Mexican Americans]] among a few other [[Hispanics]] and Latinos.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Utah History Encyclopedia | url=http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/p/PAYSON.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010318030101/http://www.media.utah.edu:80/UHE/p/PAYSON.html | access-date=2025-03-22 | archive-date=2001-03-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/49000.html |title=Utah QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau |access-date=February 28, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151104074948/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/49000.html |archive-date=November 4, 2015 }}</ref>

On January 25, 2010, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced that a [[Temple (LDS Church)|temple]] was to be built in Payson, the [[Payson Utah Temple]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/president-monson-announces-new-temple-in-payson-utah|title=President Monson Announces New Temple in Payson, Utah|date=January 25, 2010|website=newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org}}</ref> With construction completed before dedication on June 7, 2015, the Temple is the 15th in Utah and the 146th in the world.