Near the turn of the 19-century, homesteaders clustered their farms here to share labor and community, creating a settlement of 33 homesteads around a church and school, with structures from six homesteads still remaining. Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, sent parties from the Salt Lake Valley to find new settlements to support their expanding population, and Mormon settlers from Idaho first arrived here in the 1890s. The U.S. Post Office named the community Grovont, now known as Mormon Row. Mormon pioneers formed a close-knit community centered on their church and school, in contrast to the isolation typical of many western homesteads, and families cooperated on large projects such as building barns and digging ditches while women worked communally, helping with neighbors’ births and chores. They chose this place for its relatively fertile soil, protection from winds by Blacktail Butte, and access to the Gros Ventre River, and despite the harsh conditions of Jackson Hole, they succeeded in growing crops by using irrigation techniques developed during the 1847 settlement of the Great Basin. Settlers dug ditches by hand or with teams of horses and built levees and dikes to funnel water from central ditches to their fields, and by working together they built an irrigation network of waterways between 1936 and 1937 to provide crucial water for their crops.