Fillmore

For some reason, my (outdated) computer won't let me post comments to other people's posts, so I'll comment as a new post instead. I checked a couple of places to see if there was a quick answer to Tiff's question, but I couldn't find one. I would guess that perhaps they wanted a place that was more centrally located, since the territory covered a huge area - not only present-day Utah but also parts of surrounding states for a time. Then the size of the territory was carved back until it reached the current size of the state of Utah. Fillmore didn't last too long as the center of government; things were shortly moved back north to Salt Lake. I learned something in my little search, though. Fillmore was actually settled with the intent of making it the territorial capital; it wasn't an afterthought.