About
Bryce's History Project: Richmond Encyclopedia, originally just titled Richmond's Encyclopedia was organized on August 5, 2021, to record the history of Richmond and Cove, Utah. This is an independent website, not owned or operated by the city of Richmond. I record the history of different aspects of Richmond, such as People (Pioneers, Government Officers, Patriots, etc.) Historical Events, Artifacts, and Documents. I publish the history of Richmond monthly through this website. I also publish current events of Richmond through our other sources, Richmond, Utah News on Blogger, and our Facebook page @RichmondsEncyclo.
Purpose
The purpose of the Bryce's History Project: Richmond Encyclopedia website is to accurately record and describe historical events, people, architecture, and other developments in our beautiful city and surrounding area of Richmond and Cove, Utah, as stated by the Genealogical Ethics Codes.
The Creator
My name is Bryce Holt. I have been a resident of Richmond for my whole life, and am a descendant of the Funk, Merrill, and Pond families that established this small town. I am the 8th generation to live in this beautiful city.
I was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in my teenage years by missionaries. A few weeks after my baptism, my missionaries introduced to me the website Familysearch.org. I was sucked into the stories and adventures of my ancestors and wanted to learn as much as possible. In this process, I found a love for my small hometown.
As I studied history, I found it boring and difficult trying to find documents and information scattered about the internet, and history books that held different information but supported the same ideas. I also often heard stories and fables that weren't completely true about my ancestors and hometown. To end this, I have made this website to help all who want to learn about their cities—or families—histories. For more info, please visit the FAQ page.
I hope you enjoy this website as much as I did writing it.
Logo Inspiration
Images of America: Richmond
Images of America: Richmond is the most recent book published about the history of Richmond. Published in 2011 by Cheri Housley, Marie Lundgreen, & Kathy Jones. The book consists of 75+ photos of Richmond from as early as 1859 to 2010. All photos contain short histories of those who are within the book.
Daughters of Utah Pioneers
The International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers or just Daughters of Utah Pioneers (DUP) was organized in 1901. The DUP has been recording the history of Richmond as early as 1936, before any other person or organization. They organized the history of nearly all Female Utah Pioneers in four volumes of books called Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude in 1998.
History of Richmond, Utah
Amos W. Bair is the grandson of Richmond Founder John Bair. He, along with the Richmond Bicentennial Committee, organized the first history book published about Richmond in 1976: History of Richmond, Utah. The book covers the years 1850 - 1976 in 271 pages and is the most accurate source of Pioneering information about Richmond.
Richmond: A History in Black and White
Published in 2007, Richmond: A History in Black and White was Richmond City's second and most recent book published. The city hired an outside author to write the book, Marilin W. Stum. If you noticed, the book is leaning in our logo, to represent how the book used the History of Richmond, Utah as its primary source of information.
Commonly Used Websites
FamilySearch.org
About 98% of all sources come from FamilySearch.org, a website dedicated to recording and preserving the history of families and individuals. Thank you to all who have spent their precious hours in recording their families history.
MyHeritage.com Photo Enhancer and Colorizer
All photos that have been colorized were done so with the power of MyHeritage.com Photo Enhancer and Colorizer. All photos have captioned "Colorized" to insure there are no historical discrepancies.
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