History of Shirts Fort, Utah Ghost Town (*)
Taken from the Utah Place Names (Links Added)
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Shirts Fort (Kane) was four miles south of Paria on the Paria (Pareah) River. Peter Shirts (Shurtz) and others built tthis small fort in 1865. For safty reasons te group soon moved upstream t te site of Paria.

John W. Van Cott


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