It
was not until 1879 that settlement began in earnest. By October of that
year Orange Seely had made preparations to move, but it was with the
unhappy knowledge that his wife was very reluctant to leave her comfortable
home in Mt. Pleasant to face again the hardships of pioneering. Upon
their arrival in late October, she found little to comfort her. The
only thing to be seen was a road stretching straight through the flat
from the dugout on the Wellington Seely
farm on the northwest to the creek bottom on the southeast where their
log room awaited them. It was bare, desolate country; the only trees
were along the creek beds. And in spite of towering mountain castles
that defy description, only sage, prickly pear and greasewood adorned
the sunburnt land.
Orange
Seely tried to get the incoming settlers to stay on one side of the
creek or the other, but they failed to heed him. Finally, two settlements
about four miles apart seemed to be emerging, one on the northwest side
of the creek, the other on the southeast, and the settlers decided that
each should have a name. A real misunderstanding arose. "Some contended
that the lower town, now Castle Dale, should have been Orangeville because
it was the home of Bishop Orange Seely, in whose honor the name was
suggested by Erastus Snow, and Orangeville should have retained the
original name of Castle Dale because the settlers first located there.
A friendly rivalry soon sprang up. Orangeville people were dubbed 'Skillet
Lickers,' because molasses was made there, while the Castle Dale people
were called 'Woodenshoes' implying that Danes had settled there. At
first all meetings and social gatherings of both towns were held in
the bowery on Wellington Seely's farm."