Payson Real Estate
The Latter-day Saints first settled in Payson in 1850. 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 down in 1876 due to the rise of Brigham Young Academy. An opera house was built in Payson in 1883. In the late 1800s, a factory making horse collars operated in Payson.
When the Strawberry Valley Reclamation Project was completed in 1912, the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company decided to place a sugar beet processing factory in the area. The plant was completed 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 7722 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.
Payson primarily has been a farming community. Principal crops have always been grass hay, which the pioneers found growing wild when they arrived, alfalfa, and grains such as wheat, barley, oats, and corn; beets, potatoes, and onions have also been grown.
Payson Quick Facts
Population (2000): 12,716
School District: Nebo
Area: 6.8 sq miles
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Historic Main Street – Payson is where most of the 1984 hit movie Footloose was filmed, in settings such as Payson High School and “Sudsie”s’, an old and local car wash. The town was also one of the locations for the 1985 thriller Warning Sign The town is also a film favorite for seminary videos filmed by the LDS Church. The popular 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.
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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 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.
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