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Providence, UT
Providence is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The population was 8,218 at the 2020 census. Situated immediately east of the confluence of Spring Creek with the Logan River, the town lies astride a delta at the mouth of Providence Canyon and beneath 8,881-foot (2,707 m) Big Baldy Mountain. The settlement was located on Spring Creek to take advantage of water, arable land, timber resources, and existing trails. As directed by LDS President Brigham Young, on July 24, 1855, Captain Briant Stringham, Simon Baker, Andrew Moffat, and Brigham Young Jr., located headquarters for the Elkhorn Cattle Ranch on a spring of water near the west bank of the Blacksmith Fork River, immediately southwest of the present site of Providence. Subsequently, in the early spring of 1857, Samuel, Joseph, Aboile, and Nephi Campbell, and John Dunn, crossed the mountains from North Ogden into Cache Valley, seeking a new place to settle. To them, the town they called "Ogden's Hole" was becoming too crowded. They pitched camp at the present site of Providence, at a spring and pond where a creek from a canyon in the Bear River Range entered the alluvial lowland. With the coming of statehood to Utah and with the population exceeding 1,000 in the 1890s, Providence was organized as a town corporation. In 1897 Hopkin Mathews became town board president. Providence became a third-class city on 19 July 1929. The Logan Sugar Factory was completed in 1901 by David Eccles and Charles Nibley on the Blacksmith
Fork River west of Providence. In 1903 Elias Peter (Pete) Hansen discovered an out crop of high grade limestone about three miles up Providence Canyon. He filed a claim, recognizing the value of the limestone in the production of sugar, and began selling limestone to the newly organized Amalgamated Sugar Company.
Providence City Sauerkraut Day's dates back to when the city was established early on by the German and swiss immigrants. We are so happy as a community to bring this back to our city and bring back our rich heritage.
