An isolated spot along the Utah-Arizona state line, “Short Creek,' as Colorado City and Hildale are collectively known, was run via virtual theocracy for decades.
"Short Creek", as residents call the border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, was for decades steered by the tight control of a select group of polygamous religious leaders.
Those leaders pulled the community further and feature into isolation and disengagement from the outside world. Here's a brief history of Short Creek, how it became what it was under Warren Jeffs, the now-imprisoned church leader who was convicted of child sexual assault, and why the community today so desperate to move on.
1942 — Polygamists living in Short Creek take a dramatic step forward in consolidating the church’s influence, donating their land and homes, often including large buildings and compounds that were built to house plural families, into a single trust called the United Effort Plan. Church leaders establish control of the trust and eventually use it to dole out properties to favorite members and to take properties away from those who leave the church or eschew its teachings.
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