Brief History:
Wagons containing the first 50 families in Sanpete County arrived in Nov 1849. Fountain Green was started in 1859*, with a man named Albert Petty laying out twenty 4.5 acre city blocks*. Settled in the 1870's and 1880's by sheep men, and the city still hosts an annual "Lamb Day" festival*.
Fountain Green was the first city in Sanpete County to have the railroad, but in spite of the railroad's arrival in the 1880's, Fountain Green was the only town in the area to have negitive population growth between 1880 and 1890. In 1885 the city was officially organized with Reese R. Llewellyn as the first president. In 1920 it reached its peak population, about 1200, and the population was only about 600 in 1990*.
Around 1900, Fountain Green was considered the richest town in the area, due to the successful sheep men. At that time there were almost 49,000 sheep owned by 23 sheep men*.
"History of Sanpete and Emery counties, Utah : with sketches of cities, towns and villages, chronology of important events, records of Indian wars, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens."
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