Levan Ward Chapel - LDS Historic Chapels

Dedicated: 1904
Owner: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Location: Center and First Street

Spring 1867, Church leader Erastus Snow helped select a new site for Chicken Creek Settlement, relocated due to unfavorable living conditions. Brigham Young named it Levan. Snow appointed William Morgan and James Wilson as supervisors. Early in 1868, William dye built a dug-out home. Other first families to move were Jabes Broadhead and Jacob Hofheins. James Wilson, first school teacher, taught in one room of the Seth Ollorton home. William Tunbridge, town physician.