string-towns

Updated: May 4, 2025

The Mormon settlement of Moroni proved to belong to that large class of Western "cities" known as "string-towns" a long line of stores on either side of a main street, brick where fires have swept away the shacks, and wood with false fronts where dynamite or a change of wind has checked the conflagration; a miscellaneous conglomeration of saloons, restaurants, general stores, and livery stables, all very satisfying to the material wants of man, but in the ensemble not over-pleasing to the eye.

Dane Coolidge - Hidden Water