Pipe Spring National Monument - Utah

The Pipe Springs National Monument (actually in the Arizona strip) on the boarder of Utah began as a tithing farming community once known as the Mormon Outpost. It was the home of Anson and Emmeline Windsor who ran Pipe Springs for the first six years and named it Windsor Castle.

Pipe Springs was a cool oasis after the hot and dusty roads of Arizona. It was the only area for miles around that had water rising from a natural spring. In 1923 Warren G. Harding signed the proclamation setting aside Pipe Springs National Monument.

Pipe Spring, being part of Brigham Young's vision for the growing Mormon population, the ranch became a prosperous beef and dairy farming operation. Every two weeks the farm tithed their 10% to the church in the form of beef and dairy products, herding the cattle from Pipe Springs to St. George, UT. Through this tithing the hundreds of people working on the construction of the Mormon Temple in St. George we fed.

Eventually the ranch became a refuge for wifes hiding out from the federal marshals enforcing anti-polygamy laws, hoping to save their husbands and fathers from prosecution.

After the Mormon Church sold Pipe Springs, much of the land that now surrounds the National Monument was returned to the Puaite Indians in the form of reservations lands.