Mormon Row, Grand Teton National Park

[tofuboy]

I did a bit more PP than I normally do... not sure if I like it or not. C&C welcome.

[SYS]

It looks pretty good to me on my monitor. Nice shot.

[tofuboy]

Originally Posted by SYS

It looks pretty good to me on my monitor. Nice shot.

Thanks for the comment SYS. The more I look at it, the more I'm liking the shot. I think I'll get it printed on some different papers and see how it turns out.

[Stefan A]

Looks great to me. Very colorful. Why is it called "Morman Row"?

Stefan

[Busto]

Mormon, not morman.

It's a great photo, tofuboy. Find a nice spot on the wall for it.

[///molloy]

what does grand teton national park have to do with mormons?

little too much pp for me.

[bryanj87]

Really nice photo. Nice colors.

[stoneylonesome]

Sweet shot, can't help but notice what is possible the most photographed barn in the USA, I've seen that featured in so many magazines, or one just like it . Nice job.

[3Honu]

Hmmm.... It seems that Mormon Row is the settlement in the area and not the mountains.

The old farm buildings known as Mormon Row have withstood the elements for more than a century, making them not only a great spectacle, but also much-photographed. The farmland here was homesteaded by predominantly Mormon settlers in the early 1900s, but was later purchased by Rockefellers Snake River Land Company and transferred to the Park Service. Although the famed Oregon Trail remained south and didnt technically pass through Jackson Hole, many emigrants who were traveling west made trips to the area in search of the Promised Land. Most of the first settlers of the area were from what is now Utah.

and....

Mormon Row is a linear array of uniform building complexes lining the north-south Jackson to Moran Road located at the southeast corner of Grand Teton National Park. The community once extended from the Gros Ventre River at the south to north of Blacktail Butte. Extant buildings are now limited to six building clusters and an isolated ruin representing six homestead withdrawals. These homestead withdrawals comprise the Mormon Row Historic District/rural historic landscape. Associated landscape features include elaborate fence and corral systems; the Mormon Row Ditch system; remains of the Johnson/Eggleston Ditch; a domestic dump; a hay derrick; the community swimming hole dammed in an intermittent drainage; windrows marking the location of formal homes and of the community church; and the cultivated fields and pasturage laboriously cleared by the original settlers.

The Mormon Row Historic District is significant in architecture and history. The district's period of significance extends from settlement of the Andy Chambers, John Moulton, and T.A. Moulton homesteads in 1908 to the 1950s when extension of Grand Teton National Park marked the end of concerted agricultural development. The community illustrates the extension of the "Mormon Culture Region" from Utah, Idaho, and Arizona, to interspersed communities throughout the west. The community also represents late-frontier Mormon settlement of high and arid country, where homesteaders practiced diversified agriculture on a limited land base, where multiple generations inhabited the family farm (or the adjoining farm), and where the number of failed homesteads equaled or exceeded the successful enterprises.

[tofuboy]

Originally Posted by Stefan A

Looks great to me. Very colorful. Why is it called "Morman Row"?

Stefan

Thanks. As for why it's called Mormon Row, OCPickle found a few links about it.

Originally Posted by Busto

Mormon, not morman.

It's a great photo, tofuboy. Find a nice spot on the wall for it.

Thanks. I have a handful of other photos from my trip I've yet to process. My walls may be on their way to getting filled

Originally Posted by ///molloy

what does grand teton national park have to do with mormons?

little too much pp for me.

See OCPickle's post below. But in a nutshell; Mormon Row is a little dirt road in the Grand Teton National Park, along it there are very old barns (as in my photo) with the stunning backdrop of the mountains.

The PP is a bit more than I typically do, and at first I didn't like it but the more I look at it the more I like the surreal feel of the photo. I'll have to see how the prints turn out. Thanks for the comment.

Originally Posted by bryanj87

Really nice photo. Nice colors.

Thanks

Originally Posted by stoneylonesome

Sweet shot, can't help but notice what is possible the most photographed barn in the USA, I've seen that featured in so many magazines, or one just like it . Nice job.

Thanks! My friend has a cabin in Island Park, ID and we've been going there the past 3 years. This was the first time I've been to Grand Teton National Park. And to make it better, I convinced my friends to wake up at 4am and drive down there to try and get some of the morning light

Originally Posted by OCPickle

Hmmm.... It seems that Mormon Row is the settlement in the area and not the mountains.

Yep. You can google maps 'Mormon Row, WY' to see where it is in the park. Although, I think the mountains play a very big part to the photographic popularity of Mormon Row.

Thanks for finding that info. I had a basic knowledge of the history, but always nice to know more


Thanks everyone for looking and commenting, always appreciated