Location—On Skull Valley Road
15 miles south of Timpie and Interstate 80.
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Iosepa
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remains of Iosepa can still be visited. Pronounced Yo-say-pa, (Hawaiian
for Joseph) this small, remote village survived the harsh desert
atmosphere for 28 years. The little colony began in 1889 by Hawaiian
LDS converts who came to Salt Lake City beginning in 1875 to be
close to the LDS Temple. However, because of a lack of available
land with water in Salt Lake Valley, and the converts desire to
live as a group, the LDS Church bought property for them in Skull
Valley. By 1917 the community was abandoned after it was announced
that an LDS Temple was to be built in Hawaii. In August 1989, LDS
President Gordon B. Hinckley dedicated the cemetery as the final
resting place for the Hawaiians. The population reached its height
in 1911 when there were 228 residents.
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