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