A UTGENWEB AND USGENWEB PROJECT
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Rich County is located in the northeast corner of Utah, with the southern half of Bear Lake extending into the county. The Fremont Indians hunted the areas of Bear Lake and Bear river, later came the Bannock and Shoshone. The land was rich with wild game, beaver and other game, and became a favorite hunting grounds for fur traders.
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The Oregon Trail over which thousands of immigrants to the Northwest traveled cut through a corner of the county. The first white settler in the area, Thomas L "Peg Leg" Smith, he operated a cattle business, trading post, and horse exchange on the Bear River near present day Dingle, Idaho. The Homestead Act of 1862 brought the settlements of Round Valley (1863); Kennedyville [Garden City] and Laketown (1864); Woodruff (1865); Randolph (1870); and Argyle (1875).
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This project is part of the UTGenWeb project and the USGenWeb.org Project. We are volunteers working together to provide genealogical information and resources for free to family historians like you. You can 'read more' about us by clicking the link below. If you have information to share about Rich County or the people who once called it home, please contact the coordinator MaryAlice Schwanke.
The USGenWeb Project was to be organized by state and county, with volunteers coordinating efforts to collect genealogy data for their selected counties or states. However, much genealogy data cannot be limited to a single county, or even a single state. So, USGenWeb started branching out and some more specialized "projects" were created to collect and disseminate data that goes beyond county and state lines.
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