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On September 10, 1911, the first 12 settlers of the Jewish agricultural colony of Clarion, Utah, set down stakes at the site. This independent community, the initiative of a 26-year-old Ukraine-born immigrant named Benjamin Brown, was one of some 40 such farming settlements created in the United States between 1881 and 1915. The site of Clarion Colony, 6,000 acres situated some 220 km southwest of Salt Lake...