In the upcoming weeks our ward youth conference will be held in Manti to see the Manti pageant. Last week Connie and I took a road trip to visit the area where we will be camping and to scope out some activities. When we came to the city of Nephi we were interested in the ancestral ties we have there. We stopped at the small museum sponsored by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, they had many interesting displays including photos of my great-great-great grand father Charles Sperry who was part of the group that settled the area. We visited the cemetary and took photos of his head stone and learned much about the settlers of Nephi. We then continued our trip to Manti where we have more ancestral documentation through photos and many glass negatives taken by the brother of Charles Sperry, Miles Sperry. In the late 1800's Miles took a picture of Manti from the top of the Manti Temple.
We were not able to duplicate the location of Miles Sperry's photo but we got as close as possible. The large lot below that has a home on it is where the empty block is in the upper photo.
Note the 2 structures in the yellow circles from the late 1800's
Those 2 structures still stand today and I'm sure many others that we did not see.
