Russian Settlement, UT

    Russian Settlement, UT

    • Settled:  Semyon Uklein, a Tambose peasant from Russia, led about 100 Russian immigrants a train from the Los Angeles area to settle near Park Valley
    • Origin of Name: Ironically, no one from Park Valley knew the Russians, and no one who has researched the colony has ever discovered its name or can say if it ever had one; it is truly Box Elder County’s ghost town with no name
    • Known for: Believing in personal religion, and feeling led by the Holy Spirit to a simpler form of worship, the group prided themselves on being Bible-centered; ignoring proscriptions against drinking milk, they were given, in derision, the label “Molokani” or milk-drinkers; the name “Molokani” was first used to describe a group in the Tambov province of Guberniia about 1765; all that is left of this settlement is an old cemetery 
    • Location:  83 miles (1 hour, 27 minutes) west of Tremonton on I-84 W, then south and west on Hwy 30, then south of Rosette; ten miles south of Park Valley
    • No Population estimates for this isolated, Northern Utah ghost town 

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