HIAWATHA

Hiawatha (Carbon) is a coal mining town fifteen miles southwest of Price on U-122. Hiawatha was an important Mohawk Indian chieftain in the League of the Iroquios Indians. He also was the hero of Longfellow's famous poem of the same name. Hiawatha's name was given to a prominent Pennsylvania coal mine, then transferred to the Utah coal mine, and from the mine to the local community.

John W. Van Cott