If you like old restored homes, and by old I mean Civil War era, or if you’re into Mormon history, then check out the Jacob Hamblin Home in near by Santa Clara, Utah. GPS coordinates, and rough address, and hours are at the bottom of the post.
You can actually go inside the home and check out the way people use to live in pioneer days. And you’ll leave feeling much better about your own home, which is sure to be palatial in comparison.
Jacob Hamblin House in Santa Clara, UT
Mormon craftsmen built this pioneer home in 1862-63 from ponderosa timbers from Pine Valley and local red sandstone. It served the Hamblin family for seven years. Restored to its original appearance by the state of Utah in 1959, the home has been owned and operated as a historic site by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints since 1974.
Who Was Jacob Hamblin?
Jacob Hamblin was born in Ohio in 1819, a farm boy converted to Mormonism at the age of 22. Jacob Vernon Hamblin became well known and highly regarded as a peacemaker among the Native Americans of Utah and Arizona. He was a hardy frontiersman and explorer, father of a large family, and a dedicated missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons).
Speaking to Navajo chiefs in 1870 Jacob Hamlin stated: “I have now gray hairs on my head and from my boyhood I have been on the frontiers doing all I could to preserve peace between white men and Indians.” (from Pearson H. Corbett’s 1952 book about Jacob Hamblin).
Hamblin Family Life at the Santa Clara Home
The Hamblin’s were a deeply religious family. Family prayer preceded meals at their home. His wife Rachel supervised family spinning and weaving and served as the local schoolteacher, nurse, and midwife. Pricilla, the head cook for the family, was known locally as the “herb doctor”. The children helped with household tasks, tended livestock, and harvested Jacob’s famous York peaches and sweet pit apricots. The fruit and herbs were dried on the sloping upstairs porch and stored with other crops in a storage chamber behind the dining room.
The Jacob Hamblin home is open for free guided tours by senior LDS missionaries. The house is part of southern Utah’s excellent tour of historic homes, buildings and sites. Hours are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the winter, 9 to 7 in the spring, and 9 to 8 in the summer.
Old Highway 91
Santa Clara, UT
37° 8′ 0″ North Latitude, 113° 39′ 36″ West Longitude
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