Darrell, Do you know the name of the Dutton explorer? Doug -----Original Message----- From: Darrell A. Martin <darrellm@sprynet.com> To: doughall@mediaone.net <doughall@mediaone.net>; dutton-l@rootsweb.com <dutton-l@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, March 27, 1999 2:15 AM Subject: Re: Duttons in Geography >At 09:52 PM 03/26/1999 -0500, you wrote: >>Hello all! >> >>My wife and I have started planning a brief week vacation trip to Northern >>Arizona for late April. In lookin over the map of Arizona, I noticed a Mount >>Dutton (11,040 feet) across the border in southwestern Utah. So that led me >>to use my atlas to see if there were other places or geographic features >>named Dutton. I found a town of Dutton in Ontario, right on the main route >>between Detroit and Toronto. And I found another town of Dutton on the >>plains of west central Montana. >> >>We know there is the tiny village of Dutton in Cheshire, England (not in my >>atlas) and there is the crossroads of Duttons Mill in Aston, Chester County, >>PA (also not in my atlas). >> >>Does anyone know of other geographic features or towns that have the name >>Dutton? >> >>And after whom is Mount Dutton named? Do we have a line of Mormon Duttons >>that settled in southern Utah that might account for that? >> >>Doug Hall > >Doug: > >One of my family's treasured photographs is of my grandfather, Derrick >Allen Dutton of the Dutton District in Springfield, Vermont, standing under >a (big) highway sign for Dutton, Ontario. He was headed home from a visit >to my parents in the Detroit suburbs, in the late 1970s. > >There was a Dutton who was one of the first, and best known, explorers / >mappers of the American West, especially the Grand Canyon. I wouldn't be >surprised if he were the person for whom the mountain were named. > >Darrell > >Darrell A. Martin >formerly of the Dutton District, Springfield, Vermont >currently in exile in Addison, Illinois > darrellm@sprynet.com >