Payson, Utah Payson, Utah Peteetneet Museum in Payson Peteetneet Museum in Payson Location in Utah County and the state of Utah Location in Utah County and the state of Utah Payson is a town/city in Utah County, Utah, United States.
The Latter-day Saints first settled in Payson in 1850. It was originally titled Peteetneet Creek, after Chief Peteetneet, a Timpanogos Indian chief who lived near Payson's current location.
It was later retitled Payson by Brigham Young.
The Payson Tabernacle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was dedicated by Wilford Woodruff in 1872. In 1873 a high school was established in Payson, the first such institution in Utah south of Salt Lake City.
It closed in 1876 due to the rise of Brigham Young Academy. An opera home was assembled in Payson in 1883. In the late 1800s, a factory making horse collars directed in Payson. When the Strawberry Valley Reclamation Project was instead of in 1912, the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company decided to place a sugar beet refining factory in the area. The plant was instead of in October 1913. By 1915, the biggest year for the factory, 5,014 acres (20.29 km2) were planted, yielding 36,915 tons of sugar beets, which were processed into 7,722 tons of sugar. Due to low yields, the plant was closed in 1926 and dismantled in 1940; harvests were processed in the Utah-Idaho Sugar factories in Lehi and Spanish Fork. In the city, the populace was spread out with 38.3% under the age of 18, 12.8% from 18 to 24, 26.0% from 25 to 44, 14.8% from 45 to 64, and 8.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
Payson's populace has doubled since 1990, when the populace was 8,700.
Payson was at the southern end of Utah valley's real estate boom.
A historic cabin at Payson City Center Payson is the site of the annual Scottish Heritage Festival, held every July.
Payson is where most of the 1984 hit movie Footloose was filmed, in settings such as Payson High School and Sudsie's, a small-town car wash.
Payson was the setting of the 1975 children's movie Banjo the Woodpile Cat.
The prominent Mormon film Baptists at Our Barbecue was also shot on Payson's historic Main Street.
Most recently, Payson was used to film most of the Disney Channel movie Hatching Pete.
Payson was originally titled Peteetneet, after a Ute Indian chief who lived near Payson's current location.
However, the pioneering inhabitants decided to change the name to Payson, after James Pace, due to the fact that no one outside of Payson knew how to spell or say Peteetneet.
A monument still stands to Chief Peteetneet at the Peteetneet Museum and Cultural Arts Center, originally the first school in Payson.
Payson jubilates its tradition through monuments such as the historic Main Street, Peteetneet Museum and Cultural Arts Center, and a several Payson Historical Society markers that note homes and other sites in the town/city over a hundred years old.
However, the expansion of the Salt Lake City urbane region into Payson has changed the city's ethnic and theological makeup with additions of Catholic (including Eastern Rite Catholic and Greek Catholic brought in by Greek, Italian and Yugoslav settlers), Presbyterian, Evangelist, and Wiccan.
Payson, like Provo, has a dominantly Mormon population, but other theological sects and denominations such as Lutherans, Methodists, Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists.
On January 25, 2010, the LDS Church reported that a temple was to be assembled in Payson, the Payson Utah Temple. Payson is served by Nebo School District.
Public schools in this precinct within Payson include the following: Payson High School, Payson Junior High School, Mt.
Payson High School is one of the very several schools in the USA that has its own Bagpipe Band.
Payson is home to the Onion Days and Salmon Supper affairs held every August and an annual Scottish Festival. Attended elementary school in Payson Born in Payson He lived in Payson for a several years in his youth "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Payson city, Utah".
Peteetneet Town: A History of Payson, Utah.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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